Hosting & Deployment
Deploy your applications to production
Deployment is the process of making your application available to users on the internet. This section covers hosting platforms, domain setup, and deployment strategies to get your application from your local machine to a production server.
Keep Everything Together: Host frontend, backend, and database in one place for better server speed and simpler management.
Hosting Platforms
Railway
Automatic deployments from GitHub pushes. No CI/CD configuration needed. Supports databases, environment variables, and has an easy dashboard. No free plan available.
Set the region closest to your customers for better speed.
Render
Free alternative to Railway with generous free tier for static sites and web services.
Free tier has cold starts (15 min sleep). Good for testing and small projects.
Domain Name
Free Option
Railway gives you a public domain (yourapp.up.railway.app). This works perfectly fine for testing and small projects.
Custom Domain
If you want a custom domain (yourapp.com), buy it from Cloudflare Registrar.