Infrastructure

Why This Comparison Matters If you’re shipping web apps in 2026, static hosting is table stakes. The three major players — Vercel, Netlify, and Cloudflare Pages — all offer generous free tiers. But which one should you actually use? I deployed the same application to all three and measured everything. Free Tier Comparison Feature Vercel Netlify Cloudflare Pages Bandwidth 100 GB/month 100 GB/month Unlimited Build Minutes 6,000/month 300/month 500/month Serverless Functions Yes (Edge) Yes Yes (Workers) Custom Domains Unlimited 1 per site Unlimited Preview Deployments Yes Yes Yes Analytics Basic Basic Web Analytics (free) Performance Results Testing from 5 global locations with Lighthouse: ...

The Challenge Can you run a real tech business — with users, content, and revenue — without paying for any infrastructure? After a month of experimentation, the answer is yes. The Complete Free Stack Compute & Hosting Service Free Tier What I Use It For Google Cloud VM (e2-micro) 1 instance always free 24/7 automation scheduler Vercel Hobby 100 GB bandwidth 8 web apps deployed Cloudflare Unlimited CDN DNS + SSL AI & APIs Service Free Tier Limit Gemini API 25,000 credits/month (AI Ultra) Content generation GitHub API 5,000 requests/hour App data Dev.to API Unlimited Article publishing X/Twitter API 1,500 tweets/month Social automation Storage & Database Service Free Tier Limit Supabase 500 MB database User data GitHub Unlimited repos Code + assets Google Drive 15 GB File storage Business Tools Service Free Tier Use Stripe No monthly fee Payment processing Gumroad No monthly fee Digital products Product Hunt Free listing Launch platform Google Search Console Free SEO monitoring Total Monthly Cost $0. ...