Hosting · for React

Hosting for React

Among 66 makers' products we track that are built with React, 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 React chose

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

Amazon Web ServicesHyperscaler cloud

Best forThe widest catalog of building blocks — Lambda, containers, managed databases, queues — to assemble your own infrastructure.

Trade-offYou wire up networking, permissions and deploys yourself; billing is per service and hard to predict.

22 of the 66 React products here · free tier

CloudflareEdge platform

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Best forCheap global hosting with Workers, plus database (D1) and storage (R2) on the same platform.

Trade-offThe Workers runtime isn't full Node.js; some libraries need adapting.

17 of the 66 React products here · free tier

DigitalOceanPaaS

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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.

16 of the 66 React products here · free tier

RenderPaaS

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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.

9 of the 66 React products here · free tier

HerokuPaaS

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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.

8 of the 66 React products here

Google Cloud PlatformHyperscaler cloud

Best forContainers on Cloud Run that scale to zero, next to BigQuery, Firebase and Google's AI services.

Trade-offMore setup than a PaaS, and IAM and billing take learning.

6 of the 66 React products here · free tier

NetlifyFrontend cloud

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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.

5 of the 66 React products here · free tier

Microsoft AzureHyperscaler cloud

MCP

Best forApp Service, Functions and Container Apps alongside Azure OpenAI and Microsoft's identity and enterprise tooling.

Trade-offA large, enterprise-shaped console with more configuration than a PaaS.

4 of the 66 React 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.

4 of the 66 React products here

Fly.ioContainer platform

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Best forDocker apps that should run close to users in many regions.

Trade-offMore operations work than a PaaS.

1 of the 66 React products here

GitHub PagesFrontend cloud

llms.txt CLI

Best forFree hosting for static sites, docs and landing pages published straight from a repo.

Trade-offStatic files only — no server code, no preview URLs for pull requests, and soft bandwidth limits.

1 of the 66 React products here · free tier

Also real options for hosting, not seen among these React products yet: Vercel, Railway, Coolify.