The 2024 Web Hosting Report

1

Zeet

IDPs vary widely in their approach to balancing usability, customizability, and the deployment footprint. Some, like Zeet and Flightcontrol, prioritize ease of use and rapid deployment, making them ideal for small teams and projects with tight timelines. Others, like Architect and Porter, offer deeper customization options, catering to enterprises with specific compliance, security, and scalability requirements.

#DevOps Tools #DevOps Services #Developer Tools 1 social mentions

2

Zapier

There is some overlap here into the “no-code” or “low-code” world, as sometimes the same teams will hook tools like Zapier up to the BaaS in order to integrate with third parties. For small projects this can lead to superhuman productivity! But over a certain line it can become a mess of complexity where it’s hard to track down where data lives and where it is mutated.

#Web Service Automation #Automation #API Tools 12 social mentions

3

Vercel

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a term that captures tools built for developers to use where they don’t need devops engineers to deploy to the cloud. Heroku was the “category-defining” product here, and modern successors include Vercel, Render, Railway, Replit, platform.sh, Aptible, Northflank, and more. We have to say that there are some amazing products in this category. Developer Experience is at a premium!

#Developer Tools #Web Development Tools #App Deployment 522 social mentions

4

OVH Cloud

A VM is the original “hosting” product of the cloud era. Over the last 20 years, VM providers have come and gone, as have enterprise virtualization solutions such as VMware. Today you can do this somewhere like OVHcloud, Hetzner or DigitalOcean, which took over the “server” market from the early 2000’s. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft's Azure also offer VMs, at a less competitive price. In their case, the VMs are either a building block for other services or the value is in the ecosystem. See the section on public cloud below for more.

#Cloud Computing #VPS #Cloud Infrastructure 1 social mentions

5

VMware Tanzu

Docker swarm still exists, it still works, and some of these other container orchestrators are still hanging on, but for the most part, you’re using Kubernetes if you’re doing this stuff at work. Generally it's well-understood that kubernetes is hard to get right, and so most people use it via a managed provider like Elastic Kubernetes Service from AWS, Azure Kubernetes Service from MSFT, or Google Kubernetes Engine from Google Cloud. And there’s many more: Tanzu from VMWare, RedHat's OpenShift , the list goes on….

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #Backend As A Service 4 social mentions

6

Supabase

Today, this ecosystem is going strong with new providers like Hasura, AppWrite and Supabase powering millions of projects. There are a few reasons people choose this style of hosting, especially if they are more comfortable with frontend development. BaaS lets them set up a database in a secure way, expose some business logic on top of the data, and connect via a dev-friendly SDK from their app or website code to save data easily. These modern tools build a blend of managed database with curated plugins such as authentication, great admin dashboards, and function as a service type capability - all in one package, and often offered as a integrated hosted service.

#Developer Tools #Realtime Backend / API #Backend As A Service 428 social mentions

7

StackBlitz

Replit is the category leader here, but other products in this space include: Glitch, Codesphere, StackBlitz. Coherence fits here as well, with our “Workspaces” Cloud IDE. We’re also the only option where the PaaS is replaced by an Internal Developer Platform.

#Text Editors #Programming #Programming Tools 98 social mentions

8

replit

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a term that captures tools built for developers to use where they don’t need devops engineers to deploy to the cloud. Heroku was the “category-defining” product here, and modern successors include Vercel, Render, Railway, Replit, platform.sh, Aptible, Northflank, and more. We have to say that there are some amazing products in this category. Developer Experience is at a premium!

#Programming #Programming Tools #IDEs And Text Editors 603 social mentions

9

Render

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a term that captures tools built for developers to use where they don’t need devops engineers to deploy to the cloud. Heroku was the “category-defining” product here, and modern successors include Vercel, Render, Railway, Replit, platform.sh, Aptible, Northflank, and more. We have to say that there are some amazing products in this category. Developer Experience is at a premium!

#Cloud Infrastructure #Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting 415 social mentions

10

Railway

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a term that captures tools built for developers to use where they don’t need devops engineers to deploy to the cloud. Heroku was the “category-defining” product here, and modern successors include Vercel, Render, Railway, Replit, platform.sh, Aptible, Northflank, and more. We have to say that there are some amazing products in this category. Developer Experience is at a premium!

#Software Engineering #Developer Tools #Tech 222 social mentions

11

Parse

Backend as a Service (BaaS) goes back to early 2010’s with companies like Parse and Firebase. These products integrated everything a backend provides to a webapp in a single, integrated package that makes it easier to get started and enables you to offload some of the devops maintenance work to someone else.

#Developer Tools #App Development #Backend As A Service 20 social mentions

12

Apache OpenWhisk

Serverless functions are now offered by many cloud providers, as well as having options like OpenFaaS, Knative, Apache's Openwhisk and more from the open source community that run in environments ranging from one server all the way up to globally replicated private clusters.

#Developer Tools #API Tools #Backend As A Service 7 social mentions

13

Northflank

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a term that captures tools built for developers to use where they don’t need devops engineers to deploy to the cloud. Heroku was the “category-defining” product here, and modern successors include Vercel, Render, Railway, Replit, platform.sh, Aptible, Northflank, and more. We have to say that there are some amazing products in this category. Developer Experience is at a premium!

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment 15 social mentions

14

Apache Mesos

In the beginning, there was docker. In 2013, building on linux internals, docker packaged containers for mass adoption and made it easy to share a complete runtime environment for an application across the network. Check out their first demo at PyCon 2013 (I was there!) At the time, serious workloads ran on something like Mesos, which was not “container-native” and had its own way of packaging and distributing software across a cloud or data center footprint.

#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #DevOps Tools 7 social mentions

15

Azure Kubernetes Service

Docker swarm still exists, it still works, and some of these other container orchestrators are still hanging on, but for the most part, you’re using Kubernetes if you’re doing this stuff at work. Generally it's well-understood that kubernetes is hard to get right, and so most people use it via a managed provider like Elastic Kubernetes Service from AWS, Azure Kubernetes Service from MSFT, or Google Kubernetes Engine from Google Cloud. And there’s many more: Tanzu from VMWare, RedHat's OpenShift , the list goes on….

#Containers As A Service #Platform As A Service (PaaS) #DevOps Tools 2 social mentions

It’s also well understood that having a k8s cluster is not enough to make developers able to host their services - you need a devops team to work with them, using tools like delivery pipelines, Helm, kustomize, infra as code, service mesh, ingress, secrets management, key management - the list goes on! Developer Portals like Backstage, Port and Cortex have started to emerge to help manage some of this complexity.

#Development #Management #Tool 48 social mentions

17

Kubernetes

The single most important development in hosting since the invention of EC2 is defined by its own 3-letter acronym: k8s. Kubernetes has won the “container orchestrator” space, becoming the default way that teams across industries are managing their compute nodes and scheduling their workloads, from data pipelines to web services.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 280 social mentions

18

Docker Hub

Docker itself intended to build the answer here, it was the deployment platform of the future and was going to be the heart of their business model. It was called “docker swarm” and unfortunately by the time it arrived there was a fragmented market of already-adopted solutions. Docker as a package format was a runaway winner, and Docker Hub (which became the foundation for the current Docker, Inc. business) was widely used. But the fragmented runtime market left room for a new entrant: (drumroll please…) enter Kubernetes. It was a “community-driven open source project” that was in fact funded and well-staffed by Google engineers, and rose quickly on the claim of being an open-source implementation of Google’s storied internal cluster management system called “borg.”.

#Developer Tools #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers 306 social mentions

19

Apache HTTP Server

Single-page applications (SPAs) existed before S3, but given that you still had to set up, scale, and maintain servers using something like Apache or NGINX in order to serve them, the advantages for “Ops” or “DevOps” were not so different to running a “real server” with a language like PHP, python, or Java.

#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 50 social mentions

20

Helm.sh

It’s also well understood that having a k8s cluster is not enough to make developers able to host their services - you need a devops team to work with them, using tools like delivery pipelines, Helm, kustomize, infra as code, service mesh, ingress, secrets management, key management - the list goes on! Developer Portals like Backstage, Port and Cortex have started to emerge to help manage some of this complexity.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 134 social mentions

21

Hasura

Today, this ecosystem is going strong with new providers like Hasura, AppWrite and Supabase powering millions of projects. There are a few reasons people choose this style of hosting, especially if they are more comfortable with frontend development. BaaS lets them set up a database in a secure way, expose some business logic on top of the data, and connect via a dev-friendly SDK from their app or website code to save data easily. These modern tools build a blend of managed database with curated plugins such as authentication, great admin dashboards, and function as a service type capability - all in one package, and often offered as a integrated hosted service.

#GraphQL #Realtime Backend / API #API Tools 117 social mentions

22

Glitch

Replit is the category leader here, but other products in this space include: Glitch, Codesphere, StackBlitz. Coherence fits here as well, with our “Workspaces” Cloud IDE. We’re also the only option where the PaaS is replaced by an Internal Developer Platform.

#Text Editors #Cloud Hosting #Code Collaboration 112 social mentions

23

Firebase

Backend as a Service (BaaS) goes back to early 2010’s with companies like Parse and Firebase. These products integrated everything a backend provides to a webapp in a single, integrated package that makes it easier to get started and enables you to offload some of the devops maintenance work to someone else.

#Developer Tools #App Development #Backend As A Service 246 social mentions

24

cPanel

This category dates back to the “control panel” era of tools that are still used on shared VM hosts, such as cPanel. These tools automate common functions such as managing authentication, deployment of databases, etc.

#Hosting #Server Management #Server Configuration And Automation 19 social mentions

25

Coolify

The modern iteration of these tools has taken the developer experience learnings from the Platform as a Service (PaaS) category, and will bring them to your own VM, giving you your own personal PaaS. Example of this include Dokku, Coolify, Caprover, Cloud66 and many more!

#Website Builder #Cloud Computing #Static Site Generators 54 social mentions

26

Codesphere

Replit is the category leader here, but other products in this space include: Glitch, Codesphere, StackBlitz. Coherence fits here as well, with our “Workspaces” Cloud IDE. We’re also the only option where the PaaS is replaced by an Internal Developer Platform.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Code Collaboration 1 social mentions

27

Google Cloud Run

Examples for products in this category are: Google Cloud Run, AWS App Runner, Azure Container Apps. Each has different scalability, cost, and integration trade-offs.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #Development 82 social mentions

28

Google Kubernetes Engine

Docker swarm still exists, it still works, and some of these other container orchestrators are still hanging on, but for the most part, you’re using Kubernetes if you’re doing this stuff at work. Generally it's well-understood that kubernetes is hard to get right, and so most people use it via a managed provider like Elastic Kubernetes Service from AWS, Azure Kubernetes Service from MSFT, or Google Kubernetes Engine from Google Cloud. And there’s many more: Tanzu from VMWare, RedHat's OpenShift , the list goes on….

#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Cloud Computing 41 social mentions

29

Google Cloud Platform

A VM is the original “hosting” product of the cloud era. Over the last 20 years, VM providers have come and gone, as have enterprise virtualization solutions such as VMware. Today you can do this somewhere like OVHcloud, Hetzner or DigitalOcean, which took over the “server” market from the early 2000’s. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft's Azure also offer VMs, at a less competitive price. In their case, the VMs are either a building block for other services or the value is in the ecosystem. See the section on public cloud below for more.

#Cloud Computing #Backend As A Service #Cloud Infrastructure 167 social mentions

30

ClickHouse

For the third, examples here might be analytics plugins in specialized databases like Clickhouse, data-transformations in places like your ETL pipeline using Airflow or Fivetran, or special integrations in your authentication workflow with Auth0 hooks and rules.

#Databases #Relational Databases #Data Warehousing 43 social mentions

31

CapRover

The modern iteration of these tools has taken the developer experience learnings from the Platform as a Service (PaaS) category, and will bring them to your own VM, giving you your own personal PaaS. Example of this include Dokku, Coolify, Caprover, Cloud66 and many more!

#PaaS #Cloud Computing #Container Tools 104 social mentions

32

Bubble.io

For the second category, tools like bubble, Unqork, Glide are awesome (there are a lot more of these). But the risk is to go too far, and build something that really needs to be built at a lower layer in one of these tools. The providers of course want to push every use case, but in our view these are not a replacement for traditional software, and AI-assisted programming is a better path for dev augmentation than a restricted platform. In some cases though, with the right escape hatches and system design, these can truly be a 10x superpower type tool!

#No Code #Application Builder #Website Builder 428 social mentions

33

Microsoft Azure

A VM is the original “hosting” product of the cloud era. Over the last 20 years, VM providers have come and gone, as have enterprise virtualization solutions such as VMware. Today you can do this somewhere like OVHcloud, Hetzner or DigitalOcean, which took over the “server” market from the early 2000’s. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft's Azure also offer VMs, at a less competitive price. In their case, the VMs are either a building block for other services or the value is in the ecosystem. See the section on public cloud below for more.

#Cloud Infrastructure #Cloud Computing #IaaS 64 social mentions

34

AWS Lambda

The first product that popularized the term “serverless” was AWS Lambda, which is both the prototypical and archetypical function as a service provider. It also has a great name, which pings back to its envisioned place in the cloud of the future. In computer programming, a lambda, often referred to as a lambda function or lambda expression, is a concise way to represent an anonymous function, which is a function without a name. The concept originates from lambda calculus in mathematical logic and has been adopted by many programming languages, each with its own syntax and characteristics.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #Backend As A Service 244 social mentions

35

Amazon EKS

Docker swarm still exists, it still works, and some of these other container orchestrators are still hanging on, but for the most part, you’re using Kubernetes if you’re doing this stuff at work. Generally it's well-understood that kubernetes is hard to get right, and so most people use it via a managed provider like Elastic Kubernetes Service from AWS, Azure Kubernetes Service from MSFT, or Google Kubernetes Engine from Google Cloud. And there’s many more: Tanzu from VMWare, RedHat's OpenShift , the list goes on….

#Cloud Computing #Developer Tools #Cloud Infrastructure 54 social mentions

36

Amazon EC2

The single most important development in hosting since the invention of EC2 is defined by its own 3-letter acronym: k8s. Kubernetes has won the “container orchestrator” space, becoming the default way that teams across industries are managing their compute nodes and scheduling their workloads, from data pipelines to web services.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 62 social mentions

37

AWS CloudFormation

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an important part of any true hosting operation in the public cloud. Each of these platforms has their own IaC solution, e.g. AWS CloudFormation. But they also support popular open-source IaC tools like Pulumi or Terraform. A category of tools that also needs to be discussed is API gateways and other app-specific load balancers. There are applications for internal consumption, which can be called microservices if you have a lot of them. And often microservices use advanced networking options such as a service mesh instead of just the native private network offered by a VPC.

#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment 113 social mentions

38

Auth0

For the third, examples here might be analytics plugins in specialized databases like Clickhouse, data-transformations in places like your ETL pipeline using Airflow or Fivetran, or special integrations in your authentication workflow with Auth0 hooks and rules.

#Identity And Access Management #Identity Provider #SSO 175 social mentions

39

AppWrite

Today, this ecosystem is going strong with new providers like Hasura, AppWrite and Supabase powering millions of projects. There are a few reasons people choose this style of hosting, especially if they are more comfortable with frontend development. BaaS lets them set up a database in a secure way, expose some business logic on top of the data, and connect via a dev-friendly SDK from their app or website code to save data easily. These modern tools build a blend of managed database with curated plugins such as authentication, great admin dashboards, and function as a service type capability - all in one package, and often offered as a integrated hosted service.

#Developer Tools #Backend As A Service #REST API 167 social mentions

40

Apache Airflow

For the third, examples here might be analytics plugins in specialized databases like Clickhouse, data-transformations in places like your ETL pipeline using Airflow or Fivetran, or special integrations in your authentication workflow with Auth0 hooks and rules.

#Workflows #Workflow Automation #Data Pipelines 65 social mentions