Hosting · for Ruby on Rails

Hosting for Ruby on Rails

Among 8 makers' products we track that are built with Ruby on Rails, here's what they chose for hosting — each counted from a live-product source.

What shape is your app? A frontend or serverless app fits a frontend cloud. Long-running servers, background workers and databases fit a PaaS or container platform. A hyperscaler cloud has every building block but leaves you to assemble them; a platform or framework that deploys into your own cloud account sits between, with platform-style deploys and the resources on your own cloud bill.

What makers on Ruby on Rails chose

Counts are live products with a source, not market share; a product using two options counts in both.

HerokuPaaS

llms.txt CLI

Best forA long-established git-push platform with managed Postgres, Redis and a large add-on marketplace.

Trade-offNo free tier, and since March 2026 Heroku runs as a sustaining-engineering platform focused on stability rather than new features.

3 of the 8 Ruby on Rails products here

NetlifyFrontend cloud

llms.txtIn Bolt

Best forStatic sites and JAMstack apps on any framework.

Trade-offServer-side features run as functions with time limits; long-running work needs another host.

2 of the 8 Ruby on Rails products here · free tier

RailwayPaaS

llms.txt MCP

Best forServers, workers and databases deployed together, with almost no configuration.

Trade-offUsage-based billing needs watching; fewer regions and compliance options than a hyperscaler.

1 of the 8 Ruby on Rails products here

RenderPaaS

llms.txt

Best forA Heroku-style platform for web services, cron jobs and Postgres.

Trade-offFree instances sleep when idle and wake slowly; paid instances are billed whether busy or not.

1 of the 8 Ruby on Rails products here · free tier

DigitalOceanPaaS

llms.txt

Best forApp Platform deploys from git next to DigitalOcean's managed databases, storage and droplets.

Trade-offFewer built-in extras than Vercel or Railway, and instances are billed per size, not per request.

1 of the 8 Ruby on Rails products here · free tier

Hetzner CloudYour own server

Best forA lot of CPU and RAM per euro, in European, US and Singapore regions.

Trade-offFewer managed services than big clouds, and account verification can be strict.

1 of the 8 Ruby on Rails products here

Also real options for hosting, not seen among these Ruby on Rails products yet: Vercel, Cloudflare, Fly.io, Amazon Web Services, Coolify.