Render

Pros

• Go with a managed service, containerise your application and use any of the following: * Render
• Choose Render or Railway to host your pilot (they both offer free plans and are beginner-friendly).
• If it matters, I use Render for all my hosting needs.
• i've heard good things about Render's paid tier being cheap enough that it might be worth just biting the bullet if you need reliability long-term, their postgres doesn't expire and the deploy limits loosen up.
• Static websites you can whip through easily in a lot of ways, and even host your first one for free on Render.

Cons

• After moving the backend to Render, response times have become very slow, especially after periods of inactivity. Cold starts and general latency are making the app feel unusable for even simple queries.
• I also want the database to stick around longer than Render's 30-day free tier.
• If you have used PaaS like Vercel or Render etc this will make it's kinda the same but selfhosted and self managed and you can spin up anything
• Canine is an open source project saves you 10x on hosting costs from popular PaaS providers like Heroku, Fly, Render, etc.
• requires keep-alive or cron to avoid “cold starts” on Render’s free instance, and more manual configuration