[rgrmrts]

https://fly.io and https://vultr.com

I used Fly as a modern successor to Heroku (I know Heroku is still around). Features are good, scaling to 0 is great, their networking stuff is solid, and pricing is fair. I generally use it to host application backends.

Vultr for when I want a long lived server or build my own infrastructure platforms. I use it as just a VPS provider for larger machines at reasonable costs. Caveat being I’m managing my own infrastructure with all the trade-offs that come with it.

[edtech_dev]

Thanks. I hadn't heard about vultr. How does it compare to Hetzner and Linode?

[rgrmrts]

It’s similar. I liked Hetzner for their affordable bare-metal offerings, but found their interfaces to be fairly clunky. Linode and Vultr (and Digital Ocean) have a nicer web based interface. I think you can find benchmarks online comparing performance of the different VPS providers but IMO the differences are not all that relevant for every day use cases.

It mostly boils down to which service you like more based on entirely subjective variables like company, branding, ownership (Linode was acquired by Akamai).