I am looking for something similar to pythonanywhere which is great for WSGI apps but it doesn't support ASGI apps which I need.
Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App
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Re: Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App
#2I wrote a couple of toy FastAPI apps (not production) and I'm happy with Fly.io. Apparently they have lots of downtime issues, but I've never run into them (yet)
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#3Some options:
Your best bet is probably to containerize your application instead of looking for services that natively support ASGI.
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#4I am very happy with gcp. You can setup a cloud build trigger to build and push to gcr then deploy to gke or cloud run. A bit more involved that pythonanywhere but more flexible and arguably more powerful.
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#5Probably an unpopular opinion with everyone preferring to hand over money for convenience, but the advantage of learning to be able to do this yourself with nginx will bring a lifetime of self reliance/money saving.
Yes it will take time to learn it, but the ability to spin up a super cheap digital-ocean/linode/hetzner node is a valuable skill to have in your back pocket.
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#6modal.com feels the easiest
https://modal.com/docs/guide/webhooks#serving-asgi-and-wsgi-...
Re: Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App
#7Probably an unpopular opinion with everyone preferring to hand over money for convenience, but the advantage of learning to be able to do this yourself with nginx will bring a lifetime of self reliance/money saving. Yes it will take time to learn it, but the ability to spin up a super cheap digital-ocean/linode/hetzner node is a valuable skill to have in your back pocket.
Great choice. Setting up https from scratch using nginx is something you should definitely do ONCE in your life but then use automated tools such as nginx-proxy/acme-companion.
Re: Ask HN: Where to Host a FastAPI App
#8Probably an unpopular opinion with everyone preferring to hand over money for convenience, but the advantage of learning to be able to do this yourself with nginx will bring a lifetime of self reliance/money saving. Yes it will take time to learn it, but the ability to spin up a super cheap digital-ocean/linode/hetzner node is a valuable skill to have in your back pocket.
Great choice. Setting up https from scratch using nginx is something you should definitely do ONCE in your life but then use automated tools such as nginx-proxy/acme-companion.
Or you could use caddy from the get go
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#9I think it depends on your goals. If this is a serious project and your first deployment, consider Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and a managed database (DBaaS). If it's a hobby project and you're interested in learning about infrastructure you could run your app, database, and reverse proxy on a single Linux VM, which any cloud will offer.
For PaaS, if you want a set-it and forget-it solution check out Render or DigitalOcean App Platform. If you want to dive a little bit deeper and learn about different offerings from the major cloud providers, compare the features of Google Cloud Run and App Engine, or AWS App Runner. All of these providers offer databases too.
Either way I recommend learning how to containerize your app because then you can run anything almost anywhere.
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#10Google Cloud Run - tl;dr push a container that listens on PORT. Google Cloud runs it.
The quick start is even easier to get going since they have some hooks to quickly build the container: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/quickstarts/build-and-depl...