The Pethost blog
How hosting for personal projects compares, what it really costs, and how an AI agent deploys and looks after what it wrote.
Hosting for AI agents
- Hosting providers with an official MCP server in 2026: deploy, logs and rollback compared
18 of 19 hosting platforms have an official MCP server in 2026. Two have a rollback tool. Pethost's 13 tools deploy, read logs, roll back and restore.
- Hosting for AI coding agents in 2026: let Claude Code or Codex deploy and debug production
To let Claude Code or Codex deploy and debug production alone, a host must give the agent five things. Pethost does, with 13 MCP tools, from €9.99 a month.
Flat-price hosting
- Always-on hosting for $10 a month in 2026: no cold starts, no sleeping apps
About $10 a month keeps one 512 MB service always on at Render or Heroku. On Pethost €9.99 rents a 3 GB machine where nothing sleeps: room for six.
- European hosting for an app with Postgres at a flat monthly price in 2026: what €10 a month buys
An app with Postgres in the EU at a flat monthly price is €9.99 on Pethost: a 3 GB machine for every project that fits. Eleven hosts, priced.
- Hosting with unlimited projects for one flat monthly fee in 2026: a price per machine, not per app
Hosting priced per machine runs as many projects as fit for one flat monthly fee. Six small apps: €9.99 on Pethost, $30 on Railway, $42 on Render.
- PaaS with no usage-based billing in 2026: flat prices, spending caps and overage compared
Of six PaaS that bill by use or per service, only Railway documents a hard spending cap. Pethost has no usage-based billing: €9.99 a month for a whole machine.
Hosting comparisons
- Best hosting for side projects in 2026: a PaaS, a VPS, or a small cloud of your own
The best hosting for side projects in 2026 is one machine at a flat price: three apps, a bot and a Postgres are €9.99 a month on Pethost, $34.75 on Render.
- Railway vs Render vs Fly.io pricing in 2026: hobby plans, free tiers and Postgres
Three small apps, a worker and a Postgres cost $23.15 on Railway, $34.75 on Render and $17.30 to $53.24 on Fly.io in 2026, and a flat €9.99 on Pethost.
- Coolify Cloud vs Dokploy Cloud in 2026: pricing, what they manage, and fully managed alternatives
Coolify Cloud ($5 a month) and Dokploy Cloud ($4.50 a server) host only the panel: the server stays yours. Pethost looks after the machine too: €9.99 a month.
- PaaS isolation in 2026: shared containers, microVMs, or a virtual machine of your own
Render and Heroku run apps in shared-kernel containers, Fly.io and Koyeb in microVMs. Pethost rents you a virtual machine of your own for €9.99 a month.
- Coolify vs Dokploy vs CapRover vs Dokku vs Kamal in 2026: self-hosted PaaS compared
Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, Dokku and Kamal compared for 2026: free software on a server you keep. Pethost is that machine, looked after, for €9.99 a month.
- Managed Docker Compose hosting in 2026: who deploys a compose.yaml with HTTPS, backups and logs
Most managed hosts convert a Docker Compose file or want their own format. Two run a compose.yaml as written: Pethost, from €9.99 a month, and Elestio.
Alternatives
- Best Railway alternatives in 2026: predictable pricing and self-hosted options
The best Railway alternatives in 2026 are platforms priced per service, self-hosted Coolify and Dokploy, and Pethost: a flat €9.99 a month for 3 GB.
- Best Heroku alternatives in 2026, now that Heroku is in sustaining engineering
Heroku entered sustaining engineering in February 2026: fixes, no new features. Three apps, a worker and a Postgres are $33 there and a flat €9.99 on Pethost.
- Best Coolify alternatives in 2026: self-hosted and fully managed
The best Coolify alternatives in 2026 are four self-hosted panels, two platforms that price each service, and a fully managed machine from €9.99 a month.
- Best Render alternatives in 2026: when a price per service adds up
The best Render alternatives in 2026 by price: three apps, a worker and a Postgres are $34.75 on Render, $33.00 on Heroku and €9.99 on one Pethost machine.
- Best Hostinger VPS alternatives for Docker in 2026: cheap VPS prices compared, and the managed options
Hostinger's KVM 2 VPS is $8.99 a month for 24 months upfront, then $14.99. The alternatives for Docker: other servers, and a managed machine for €9.99.
- Best Dokploy alternatives in 2026: self-hosted PaaS and managed hosting
The Dokploy alternatives of 2026 are another self-hosted PaaS, a hosted panel, or Pethost: a managed machine that runs your Compose file for €9.99 a month.
- Best Sliplane alternatives in 2026: flat-price container hosting compared
Sliplane's €9 a month buys a server of 1 vCPU and 1 GB. Of the best Sliplane alternatives in 2026, Pethost puts 2 vCPU and 3 GB behind a flat €9.99.
- Best Easypanel alternatives in 2026: free panels and managed hosting
Easypanel is free for 3 projects, then $14.9 a server a month plus the server. The alternatives in 2026: Coolify, Dokploy, or Pethost, €9.99 with the machine.
- Best CapRover alternatives in 2026: newer self-hosted panels and managed hosting
CapRover alternatives in 2026: Coolify and Dokploy run a Compose file on a server you keep; Pethost is the server looked after, €9.99 a month for 3 GB.
- Best Dokku alternatives in 2026: self-hosted panels, platforms and managed machines
The best Dokku alternatives in 2026 are a self-hosted PaaS (Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, Kamal) or a managed machine: Pethost, €9.99 a month for 3 GB.