Landing Page — hobby stack.
For each requirement below, pick the option that fits your build — recommended first, then free and cheaper alternatives — or skip what your project doesn't need. Tap the info icon next to any requirement to see why it matters.
Hosting / Static Hosting
Where your code actually runs and serves requests. Picking the right host affects speed, scaling, and how much ops work you do.Pricing & free-tier limitsVercel: Hobby Free $0 – 100GB bandwidth, 6k build mins, 1M Edge Function invocations, unlimited static sites | Pro $20/seat/mo incl. 1TB bw, $40/100GB overage, $0.18/GB-hr Fast Data Transfer | Enterprise Custom ~$2000+/mo. Cloudflare Pages: Free $0 – unlimited bw/requests, 500 builds/mo, 100 custom domains | Pro $20/mo – 5k builds, $30/500 extra builds | Business $200/mo. Netlify: Starter Free $0 – 100GB bw, 300 build mins | Pro $19/seat/mo + $55/100GB bw over, $7/500 build mins | Enterprise $500+/mo. AWS Amplify: Free tier $0 – 5GB hosted, 100GB bw | Pay-as-you-go $0.15/GB served + $0.023/GB storage + build $0.01/min
DNS Management
Your human-readable address on the web plus the DNS records that point it at your servers. Skipping this is not an option — users need a domain to reach you.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare DNS: Free $0 – unlimited zones/queries, unmetered DDoS, 1-sec TTL | Pro $20/mo – WAF + image optimization | Business $200/mo – 100% uptime SLA, custom SSL | Enterprise Custom. AWS Route 53: $0.50/hosted zone/mo (first 25 $0.50) + $0.40/M queries standard, $0.60/M geo | Health checks $0.50/mo each. Namecheap Free with domain | DNSimple Personal $6/mo – 10 domains $0.60/domain over | NS1 Managed $100/mo + $0.50/M queries over 50M
CDN / Edge Network
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare CDN: Free $0 – unlimited bandwidth, global 310 PoPs | Pro $20/mo – WAF + 20 Page Rules, $5/10k extra optimized images | Business $200/mo – 100% SLA | Enterprise Custom. BunnyCDN: Volume from $1/mo – $0.01/GB NA/EU, $0.06/GB SA, $0.03/GB Asia | Overage same rate, no egress surprise. Fastly: Free trial 50GB | Developer $50/mo min – $0.12/GB NA/EU + $0.02/10k requests | Enterprise $500+ with VCL. AWS CloudFront: Free 1TB egress/yr | $0.085/GB first 10TB NA/EU + $0.0075/10k HTTPS reqs
SSL / TLS Certificate Management
Encrypts traffic between your users and your servers. Without it browsers flag your site as insecure and you lose trust and search ranking.Pricing & free-tier limitsLet's Encrypt: Free $0 – 90-day certs, unlimited domains, wildcard via DNS-01, auto-renew | Rate limit 50/week/domain. Cloudflare Universal SSL: Free $0 – auto issuance, 1-yr edge certs, auto renewal. AWS ACM: Free $0 for AWS resources (ALB/CloudFront) – private CA $400/mo per CA + $0.75/cert. ZeroSSL Free: 3 x 90-day free, then Premium $10/mo unlimited. DigiCert Basic: $218/yr DV single | OV $368/yr | EV $698/yr | Wildcard $688/yr | Multi-year discount -20%
Database (Serverless / Edge)
Persistent storage for your app’s data — users, products, orders. The single most important architectural decision for most projects.Pricing & free-tier limitsSupabase: Free $0 – 500MB DB, 1GB storage, 50k MAU, 500k Edge Func calls, 2M Realtime msgs | Pro $25/mo – 8GB DB incl, $0.125/GB over, $0.00325/MAU over, $2/M Edge Func over | Team $599/mo. Turso: Free 9GB total, 500 DBs, 500M rows read/mo | Scaler $29/mo – 24GB, $0.50/GB storage over, $0.15/M rows read over. Neon: Free 0.5GB storage, 10 branches, 100hrs compute | Launch $19/mo – 10GB incl $0.35/GB over, 300hrs compute $0.16/compute-hr over | Scale $69/mo. PlanetScale: Free 5GB, 1k conn/day | Scaler $29/mo – 10GB + 100M reads, $1.50/GB storage over, $1.50/M reads over | Enterprise Custom. AWS RDS db.t3.micro ~$12.5/mo + storage $0.115/GB-mo + I/O | Aurora Serverless v2 $0.12/Aurora Capacity Unit-hr
Object Storage (Assets & Media)
Where you keep files users upload or you serve — images, videos, documents — and how fast they reach visitors around the world.Pricing & free-tier limitsCloudflare R2: Free $0 – 10GB storage, 10M Class A ops/mo, 10M Class B | Standard $0.015/GB-mo after, Class A $4.50/M, Class B $0.36/M, ZERO egress fee. AWS S3 Standard: Free 5GB 12mo | $0.023/GB-mo first 50TB + $0.09/GB egress to internet + $0.005/1k PUT $0.0004/1k GET | IA $0.0125/GB. Backblaze B2: Free 10GB + 1GB dl/day | $0.006/GB-mo storage + $0.01/GB download (free via Cloudflare Bandwidth Alliance) + $0.005/1k TXs. Wasabi: No egress $6.99/TB/mo (1TB min) $0 overage $6.99/TB, 90-day min retention
Contact Form API
Interactive assessments, quizzes, or forms that capture structured input from users.Pricing & free-tier limitsFormsubmit.co: Free $0 – unlimited forms, unlimited submissions, spam filter, file upload, no API key needed. Formspree: Free 50 subs/mo – no file upload | Gold $20/mo – 1k subs $0.01/subs over + 10GB storage + Zapier | Platinum $40/mo 5k. Basin: Free 100 subs/mo | Starter $12/mo – 1k subs + webhooks + file upload | Pro $30/mo – 10k subs $1/1k over. Getform: Free 100/mo | Starter $12/mo 1k | Pro $29/mo 10k $3/1k over. Typeform: Basic Free 10 responses/mo | Basic $25/mo 100/mo | Plus $50/mo 1k, $0.10/resp over
Analytics API (PostHog Basic)
Understands your users and supports them. Drives product decisions and retention.Pricing & free-tier limitsPostHog Cloud: Free $0 – 1M events/mo, 5k session recordings, 1M feature flag requests | Hobby $20/mo – 100k events incl then $0.000248/event ($0.248/1k), recordings $0.005/rec, free up to 1M | Scale from $225/mo + volume. Plausible: Free trial 30d | Growth $9/mo – 10k pageviews, $0.90/10k over | Business $19/mo – 100k views | Enterprise $90/mo 1M. Umami Cloud: Free 100k events | Pro $20/mo – 250k events $5/100k over | Self-host free unlimited
Email Transactional API
Sending transactional email (receipts, resets, alerts) and sometimes marketing mail. Deliverability matters more than features here.Pricing & free-tier limitsResend: Free $0 – 3k emails/mo + 100/day limit | Pro $20/mo – 50k incl, $0.0004/email ($0.40/1k) over | Scale $95/mo 100k + $0.00038 over. Amazon SES: $0.10/1k emails + $0.12/GB attachments | Dedicated IP $24.95/IP/mo | Free 3k/mo if on EC2. Brevo (Sendinblue): Free 300 emails/day unlimited contacts | Starter $19/mo – 5k/mo $0.003/email over + no daily limit | Business $35/mo 20k + A/B. SendGrid: Free 100/day forever | Essentials $19.95/mo 50k, $0.00045/email over | Pro $89.95/mo 100k incl $0.0004 over
CI/CD Pipeline
Automates testing and deploying your code. Saves enormous time and prevents “works on my machine” releases.Pricing & free-tier limitsGitHub Actions: Free $0 – 2k mins/mo private (3000 Linux), 500MB storage | Team $4/seat/mo – 3k mins | Enterprise $21/seat/mo – 50k mins | Overage $0.008/min Linux, $0.016 Win, $0.08 MacOS. Vercel Build: Free 6k mins | Pro incl 24k team mins, $0.18/min over | Cloudflare Pages 500 builds free, 5k Pro. CircleCI: Free 6k build mins/mo + $0 overage pay-as-you-go $0.03/credit (~$0.01/min) | Pro $15/mo 2k credits + $0.00006/credit over
Repo Hosting / Version Control
Where your code actually runs and serves requests. Picking the right host affects speed, scaling, and how much ops work you do.Pricing & free-tier limitsGitHub: Free $0 – unlimited public/private repos, 3 collaborators unlimited, 2k Actions mins | Team $4/seat/mo – 3k Actions mins, protected branches, CODEOWNERS | Enterprise $21/seat/mo – 50k Actions, 50GB Packages, SAML/SCIM, 99.9% SLA. GitLab: Free 5GB storage, 400 CI mins | Premium $29/seat/mo – 10k CI + 50GB | Ultimate $99/seat. Bitbucket: Free 5 users + 50 build mins | Standard $3/seat/mo – 2500 mins, $0
How this hobby landing page checklist works.
Each requirement below is something a hobby landing page build typically needs. Pick one of the four researched options — recommended, free, cheaper or paid — add your own with "Other", or skip the requirement if your project doesn't need it. Nothing is mandatory; the plan on the right tracks what you've decided so nothing gets forgotten.
Your picks are saved in this browser automatically, so you can come back anytime. Options are researched per build level and refreshed as vendors change their plans — always verify details on the provider's page before committing.