Alternatives to DigitalOcean

Vercel

Deploy frontend apps with zero configuration.

Vercel is a cloud hosting platform specialising in frontend frameworks and serverless functions, used via web interface and CLI.

Hetzner Cloud

European cloud servers at a fraction of AWS pricing.

Hetzner Cloud is a European cloud infrastructure provider offering virtual machines (VMs), dedicated servers, object storage, load balancers, and managed Kubernetes at prices significantly lower than AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Coolify

Self-hostable Heroku alternative for your own servers.

Coolify is a free, open-source self-hosting platform that brings Heroku-style convenience to your own VPS or dedicated server.

Supabase

Open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres.

Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative built on PostgreSQL, available as a managed cloud service or self-hosted via Docker.

Railway

Deploy full-stack apps from GitHub in seconds.

Railway is a cloud hosting platform that automatically detects your project's framework, builds it, and deploys it with databases and private networking included — no configuration files required.

Cloudflare

CDN, DNS, and edge compute for any website.

Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company whose free and paid tiers are used by millions of websites globally.

Fly.io

Run Docker containers close to your users, globally.

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Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching and instant scale-to-zero.

Neon is a serverless PostgreSQL provider that separates storage from compute, allowing databases to scale to zero when idle and wake in milliseconds when needed.