Deployment & Hosting
Deployment tooling has quietly become the most crowded shelf in the developer toolbox — and the most consequential. The platforms below cover the whole spread: opinionated git-push hosts that ask you for nothing but a repository, self-hosted control planes that turn a €5 VPS into a real deploy target, and edge networks built for teams who care about the ninety-ninth percentile in Jakarta.
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The rest of the directory, in case the thing you are actually shopping for lives one shelf over.
How to choose a deployment platform
Choosing a deployment platform is mostly a question of how much control you want to trade for how little operational work. Managed platforms-as-a-service detect your framework, build a container and hand you a URL — excellent while your architecture is boring, occasionally infuriating when it stops being boring. Self-hosted options invert that: you keep the bill and the flexibility, and you inherit the pager.
In between sit the edge platforms, which are less about convenience and more about physics — moving compute closer to the request so that latency stops being a design constraint. Whichever direction you lean, three things matter more than the marketing page suggests: how fast a rollback is, whether preview environments are genuinely free, and what happens to your bill on the day something goes viral.
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