Render, founded in 2019 in San Francisco (YC S19), is a unified developer cloud PaaS offering one-click deployment of static sites, web services, PostgreSQL, Redis and cron jobs, with a free tier of 750 instance hours per month and widely seen as a modern Heroku alternative.
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Railway is a developer deployment platform founded in 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona (YC S20, $50M+ raised). It auto-builds and deploys apps from Git repos, hosts Postgres/Redis, bills by usage with a $5 monthly free allowance, and is a popular modern Heroku alternative.
Koyeb is a serverless cloud platform headquartered in San Francisco, United States, supporting automatic containerized app deployment from Git repositories with edge deployment in 30+ regions globally.
Platform.sh is a PaaS for web applications, founded in 2014 as Commerce Guys in France. Supports IaC deployment, Source Operations, and Blackfire profiling.
Created by Jeff Lindsay in 2013, Dokku is an open-source (MIT) mini PaaS built on Docker, known for git push one-click deployment and Heroku Buildpacks compatibility, ideal for self-hosted single-server application platforms.
Coolify is an open-source self-hosted PaaS from the Hungarian team coolLabs that deploys apps and databases with one click; 491,197+ self-hosted instances run 280+ one-click services.
STC Cloud is the public cloud brand of Saudi Telecom (STC), launched in 2019 as Saudi Arabia's first hyperscale cloud platform, with data centers in Riyadh and Jeddah, serving enterprise customers with local data residency and sovereignty compliance.
JD Cloud is the cloud computing brand of JD Group, offering public cloud services since 2016 with headquarters in Beijing. Backed by JD's e-commerce, logistics, and supply chain strengths, it delivers full-stack IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services with a distinctive edge in e-commerce cloud and industrial digitalization.
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