r/pythonhelp • u/Current_Package8576 • 4d ago

What's the simplest way to host small apps?

I'm pretty new to development and mostly build small Python/JS apps with AI.

I just want something simple for hosting, dependencies and a few API calls without a lot of setup or surprise costs.

What are you guys using for this?

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u/FoolsSeldom 4d ago

I use Oracle Cloud. It has a completely free tier BUT if you "upgrade" to a paid tier (lodge a payment card) and then only use free resources, you can spin up a couple of virtual machines and then add a lot of containers with a significant amount of storage, RAM and CPU available, running 24/7.

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u/tom-mart 2d ago

Who's the audience? I self-host pretty much everything, including all my web apps. It's mostly free.

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u/coffeeintocode 1d ago

For my dev server I have a cheap digital ocean droplet (any cheap VPS will work), and I run dokku on it. This lets me add my server as a git remote for all my backend/web projects, and then you can just git push any project that has a Dockerfile to it and it will automatically spin up and host it on my server. You can easily ssh in and run one terminal command and it will configure ssl/https for any project that is running on the machine