Side Project Hosting Recommendations

Users recommend easy-to-use hosting platforms, self-hosting solutions on VPS like DigitalOcean, and PaaS alternatives such as Cloudron, CapRover, and Cloud66 for deploying side projects.

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alessioalex Sep 20, 2013 View on HN

DigitalOcean is your best options, host it yourself.

xp84 Feb 9, 2023 View on HN

I think this product is the closest: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform

wx196 Apr 6, 2014 View on HN

Try https://www.cloud66.com/, it does what you want, but for some money.

mikegedelman Jun 6, 2016 View on HN

I think OP means something you can host yourself on a cloud box like DigitalOcean

the-yair Jun 11, 2023 View on HN

Hi, a new entrepreneur, created a SaaS for deploying you side-projects, currently supports docker containers and static sites, more to come :)

shykes Jun 14, 2013 View on HN

Looks like maybe it should be hosted on Digital Ocean ;)

pestatije Aug 26, 2024 View on HN

non-shadiness: would u please explain?they dont offer full cloud services, but if you can accommodate, Railway (https://railway.app/) has served me well

bravesoul2 Jun 7, 2025 View on HN

https://onestack.cloud are doing this

the_common_man Mar 29, 2024 View on HN

Have you tried something like cloudron or yunohost?

pcardoso Sep 9, 2021 View on HN

I have been using CapRover for this purpose (https://caprover.com)