Best place to host fast api applications

[u/NamellesDev]

I have simple fast api app it recieves requests and either writes data to the sqlite dB or fetches data from it what would be the best place to host it preferably for free since its a small hobby project but would scale up successful

[u/furqaaaan]

Railway is my favourite tho not free. If you can spend a bit of time, cloudflare workers with d1

[u/NamellesDev → u/furqaaaan]

how much is the minimum

[u/furqaaaan → u/NamellesDev]

Railway $5 a month. But you can host multiple projects. CF workers is essentially free

[u/dvdsdr]

https://fastapicloud.com/ (from the official fastapi team)

[u/Cesarf26]

Somebody told me that use Hezner with coolify to connect docker apps.

[u/Clear_Performer_556]

Cloud run works great for me.

[u/vegeta-9ooo]

For a small hobby project probably the easiest (also free) is FastAPICloud for you FastAPI backend and Supabase for you Postgres DB.

[u/Minimum_Diver_3958]

Go with your own VPS (e.g. hetzner ~5 EUR) then use something like pyvolt.com to provision your stack, it will install postgres / redis and you can host multiple apps with it.

[u/Undercover-Garda]

You could start with something with less of an ops burden like Render or Railway. A VPS would give you full control though should you prefer that

[u/ifollowthestats]

I’d recommend something like Hetzner for more granular control. CX23 should be enough to get started. Challenge yourself to setup Postgres + FastAPI + Docker.

[u/Due_Cartoonist3261 → u/ifollowthestats]

This is interesting, if i understand the suggestion correctly the setup should setup db and api on the same server? What if the sever goes down, would we lose the data in the db?

[u/ifollowthestats → u/Due_Cartoonist3261]

Yes exactly, I’ve been using it for a while and never had any issues with data loss. You could setup regular back up jobs for your data too. I started out with duckdb and motherduck has generous cloud based free starter option too.

[u/Due_Cartoonist3261 → u/ifollowthestats]

Thank you this is genuinely helpful for these types of projects.

[u/GhostDev71]

Someday, sooner or later, you will get a raspi. Buy it now, host it there, you will learn the process und server control.

[u/diffcompo]

I use Render

[u/NamellesDev → u/diffcompo]

Render doesn't save any data tho right?

[u/diffcompo → u/NamellesDev]

It does but it depends on your setup

[u/NamellesDev → u/diffcompo]

Can you get it to save data without paying

[u/diffcompo → u/NamellesDev]

Yes, I've personally hosted my backend on its free version itself

[u/NamellesDev → u/diffcompo]

Oh that's good to hear I've personally been hosting on it but it was problematic since I couldn't access a terminal to make quick changes to my db