CatDataPages VS hugo-quick-start

Github: https://github.com/NBPub/CatDataPages

RIP Heroku free tier. I made some minor updates to an old project and ported it over to Render. It was pleasing and easy, simply make an account, add Gunicorn to the project requirements, and deploy! The repo has more information about site features and Render deployment.

GitHub. I'm planning to add to the ReadMe, soon.

Render.com — a pay-as-you-go cloud platform for deploying web applications of all kinds

Render is a cloud-based application hosting and database platform for building, deploying, and scaling applications with ease. It provides enterprise-grade data stores, automatic scaling, backups, and high availability, and it supports PostgreSQL databases.

Their status page says operational, but even their main website https://render.com is down

The main upside is cost-effectiveness, but managing VPS is still painful which can be solved with PaaS like Heroku, Render, or similar.

I opted for utilizing the free service provided by render.com to host both the Node.js Server (Colyseus) and the Vue.js web application (frontend).

Render is a platform for deploying applications built with diverse technologies such Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go. It also scales your application's resources up or down based on traffic demands.

Like Heroku, and other cloud hosting platforms, Render is a cloud application hosting platform for developers to deploy static sites and dynamic applications. It also offers a fully managed hosted database with internal and external connectivity. This makes it useful for both frontend and backend developers alike.

been happy with https://render.com/ free static hosting with custom domains.

used to use s3 doe the longest time, but aside from costing a nominal fee, it's so unnecessarily complicated in this day and age.

Render: Host web applications and static sites effortlessly.

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a term that captures tools built for developers to use where they don’t need devops engineers to deploy to the cloud. Heroku was the “category-defining” product here, and modern successors include Vercel, Render, Railway, Replit, platform.sh, Aptible, Northflank, and more. We have to say that there are some amazing products in this category. Developer Experience is at a premium!