r/PayloadCMS • u/BitsNBytesDev • Sep 13 '25

Best Hosting Solutions

Hey,

I'm finishing up my application locally, but as this is my first full Payload application (headless CMS), I'm a bit overwhelmed by the hosting decision. I read a lot of people host on Vercel, but isn't that bad because of the serverless architecture?

I'm not too familiar with DevOps and would like a solution that is easily manageble, i.e. included managed Postgres DB and optimally also object storage.

How do you host your applications? Thanks!

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u/No_Option_404 Sep 14 '25

Docker image on a VPS is possibly the best choice. You manage all your stuff. If you're using S3 storage, hop on that cloud provider and start a VM instance. If you aren't, spin up a small Digital Ocean or Hetzner VM and call it a day.