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I host my freelance web agency website on Vercel. Using Next.js.

For more information, you can read more about me and my niche as a freelance web developer. Contact me for a free quote.

I develop state-of-the-art digital solutions with a focus on your needs: website with excellent SEO, CRMs, admin panels, e-commerce online stores, restaurant apps, everything that needs to be on the screen to promote your business and/or reach more customers and ultimately generate more revenue. As a freelancer, I am your only point of contact. I follow up your project and I finally finish it. A robust, beautiful website with 1 page + all kinds of necessary info, excellent SEO, user-friendliness and performance starting from €300. For a long cooperation I am always there for you. In this way we always prepare the most optimal strategy for every problem. To create a better experience, improve our reputation every time and extend your website/app even further. Visit my website for more info and some existing projects I've realized so far.

My website for more information: https://webdevamin.com

Startup Name / URL: Webdevamin, URL: https://webdevamin.com

Starting August 1, 2023, Railway is going to remove their free Developer plan and people have to switch to Hobby plan which is €5 a month. First Heroku and now Railway. Where do I host my portfolio website for free?

So about a year ago, I wanted to make a transition from being a full-time employee to being a freelancer. First I've created many social media accounts, spread my business word-by-mouth and developed my own website. I have to say that I am really happy I've took the step. To up til now I've had way better results when it comes to developing websites and web applications compared to being an employee: better performance, speed, accessibility, less bugs, etc. I'm just more productive doing freelancing. And normally, being happy makes a human more productive. Compared to being an employee, I feel like I am doing true craftsmanship: building apps for my clients from zero to the last feature. And later on extending them even more. And I am not only talking about making simple websites with WordPress. Some of my mid-large sized projects are custom made with code like Next.js and Laravel. I like to keep my clients under contact so they always come to me to extending features and have a long term partnership. And having written the code myself, I intimately know almost everything of the project, allowing me to pick up where I left off without much effort. This is because I always create a "private readme" and an one page documentation so I know from where I should continue and I also have my own private mini-Notion like SaaS tailored for freelancing.

I did use WordPress for my clients. Even if it was only for frontend without backoffice needed. But nowadays, I am just using Next.js (React framework) to build static websites and host it for free somewhere like Netlify or Cloudflare. My website for example was also made with Wordpress couple of years ago. But I wanted to ant up my web dev skills so I revamped my whole website into Next.js. It is connected with Strapi as a headless CMS though.

I don’t recommend using Wordpress as a Headless CMS because eventually you will have maintain and update plugins and more. If you know how to code, I would recommend PayloadCMS. My website is currently built with Next.js and Strapi. But I am planning to move to PayloadCMS in the near future. Strapi is good if you prefer no-code. PayloadCMS in case you know how to code with Typescript and Node.js.

Next, we'll deploy our ecommerce website to Vercel (which is a great choice to host your Next.js website). Other hosting options include Netlify and Render.

1) Render.com currently offers postgres databases for $7 a month. The $7 instance is pretty weak as far as RAM and CPU, and their prices also get pretty unreasonable after that. However, this is a quick setup and cheaper alternative to Neon.

I use Cloudflare Serverless for front end apps and Render for backend services.

- Cloudflare [1] scales easily and has a lot of easy to use services like databases and storage buckets, JAM Stack front end pages, and CDN services for images and videos.

- Render [2] has been great for us to spin up Python services quickly. I haven't worked with a production load on Render, but I hear good things :)

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/

[2] https://render.com/

The journey of deploying an open-source software platform like forem can be complex and daunting, but with the right tools and services, it can also be remarkably rewarding. This article details my experience deploying Forem, the software behind the Dev.to, on Render.com, deploying Promptzone.com.

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.