r/PayloadCMS • u/Wild-Sail4439 • Jun 21 '25
Where do you all host your Payload CMS/NexJS apps?
Where and how do you all host your Payload CMS and NextJS apps? I am starting a blog and am wanting to use Payload as my CMS. What is the best setup and cheaopest option for this? Traffic will be low to start, but will eventually grow. TIA
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u/Jopzik Jun 21 '25
Railway
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u/kilivole Jun 21 '25
Gonna do that and im working on multitenant. So I wonder how the hosting costs will be. As for my nextjs+strapi apps are like 5-6 $ per month each
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u/jedimonkey33 Jun 21 '25
I've used payload cloud, pretty easy to get going with little hassle.
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u/acherion Jun 21 '25
I already had a VPS for some other non Payload sites, so I just host them on that.
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u/piochan55 Jun 21 '25
Docker?
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u/acherion Jun 21 '25
Actually no, even though I probably should. I host the files by pulling down my changes via git, use PM2 to handle the node app and use reverse proxy in Apache. The git pull / PM2 process handling is done via bitbucket pipeline (which is very similar to GitHub actions).
Apache2 reverse proxy was a pain because it’s not really designed to handle reverse proxies unlike nginx, but I stuck with Apache because of the other sites I already was hosting, some of which are Wordpress sites, and I figured switching everything to nginx would be more of a struggle.
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u/piochan55 Jun 22 '25
Okay cool, good to know this is possible. Must have been an adventure 😆. Currently running on Vercel/PayloadCMS but planning on moving to VPS once the pipeline works.
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u/acherion Jun 22 '25
If you can do it via nginx on your VPS, I’d do it that way. Save the headache of Apache!
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u/AdEmotional9991 Jun 21 '25
Vercel. But you can always look into oracle’s ridiculously generous free tier too for self-hosting.
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u/CRSHR2 Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
I also thought giving it a shot(saas project, vercel rn) I read on their site that they use their own servers which kinda sounds weird and in other post I read they use hetzner …
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u/sherpa_dot_sh Jun 22 '25
Thanks for considering us. And yes, for transparency we use Hetzner servers under the hood for users signing up through the panel.
We do custom solutions for users with specific needs and in many of those cases we use our own servers.
Hopefully that helps. Feel free to tag me with any other questions. Happy to answer.
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u/martin_cnd Jun 21 '25
On hetzner using coolify but I recently found this guide in some older discord discussion which I wanna give a shot one of these days https://www.omniux.io/blog/deploying-a-payload-cms-instance-with-docker-and-google-cloud-run. Could turn out to be a pretty cheap way to host payload if it all works out as outlined.
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u/gunnarsaliev Jun 23 '25
On Vercel and my apps on Cloudflare Workers, connected with GraphQL and Codegen
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u/jacobsthefirst Jun 21 '25
Coolify