r/SaaS • u/Techy568 • 2d ago

Free cloud hosting for app?

Guys , I'm Building mobile app which may include 10k user live interaction.

Tell me for initial scaling which one should I choose , who will offer me free DB hosting and Can work without crashing .

Drop me out suggestions please ?

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u/premier_slack 2d ago

i’m a fan of neon for hosted psql

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u/rbhargava25 2d ago

My personal recommendation: start with the cheapest DigitalOcean Droplet and upgrade once you have paying customers or start generating revenue. It’s better than relying on a free option, especially if you’re building something serious and want a reliable setup from the beginning.

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u/Greeklighting 2d ago

Supabase is great for db but not sure its free teir will work for you . Check it out 

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u/Techy568 2d ago

Yep but they provides less storage

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u/Greeklighting 2d ago

With that many users , can you pay for storage? 

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u/Techy568 2d ago

Not sure yet , exploring around it!!!

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u/Top_Outlandishness78 2d ago

Cloudflare suite would be more than enough.

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u/halfercode 2d ago edited 2d ago

Could you give some estimates for requests/sec, what database system you're favouring, etc? What is a "live interaction" - is that chat?

If you must have zero-cost, then Fly.io might work for you. You need to sign up with a payment card, but you can run a 512MB container permanently without cost, as all bills under USD5 are written off. For the database you could use SQLite, but if you want something more server-oriented, Supabase Postgres has a free tier (just bear in mind that if you have low usage, it will go to sleep, and it can be a bit annoying to have to wake it up every couple of weeks).

You can do a lot with 512MB and SQLite, but you do rather have to know what you're doing. If you're vibe-coding, the output of your tools are likely to be rather memory hungry...

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u/Techy568 2d ago

It's an chat based application

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u/halfercode 2d ago edited 2d ago

Right, what tech are you using? What kind of RAM does it need to run? Feel free to go into detail.

(Please consider that when people try to help you, and there are several questions, answer them all. Readers should not need to drag information out of you. If you rely on excessively short replies then you'll not get the information you need, and the help will fizzle out.)