Learning and experiments
Combine filters →Learning hosting is judged on how quickly something can be deployed, how little it costs while it does nothing, and how easily it can be thrown away. Documentation matters more than capacity, and a permanent free tier matters more than either. Nothing here needs to survive: the point is the attempt, which is also why getting out should be trivial.
9 providers market themselves for learning and experiments, listed alphabetically. Across 7 countries, commonest entry price $15 to $50 a month. 53 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- alwaysdata
French managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.
B
- Back4App
Managed Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.
E
- exe.devOne we like
Ubuntu VMs in seconds over SSH, sold as a pool of capacity rather than as machines, and aimed as much at agents as at people.
H
- Hugging Face
Machine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.
L
- Lolipop!
Japanese rental server from GMO Pepabo, selling shared hosting for personal and small-business sites through its own control panel.
N
- netcup
Karlsruhe-based provider selling low-priced webhosting, VPS and root servers from European, North American and Asian locations, part of the Anexia group.
P
- PythonAnywhere
Browser-based Python hosting with in-browser consoles, scheduled tasks and managed web apps, sold by CPU-seconds, web workers and disk.
R
- Replit
Browser-based development environment with hosting attached, sold around an AI agent that writes, runs and publishes the application.
S
- Sakura Internet
A Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.