Articles

• Where to host an app you built with Claude Code (2026)

  The three realistic ways to get a Claude Code app online with a database, logins and your own domain, what each one costs in money and effort, and which one fits someone who doesn’t want to run servers.

• Custom domains explained: DNS records, and connecting one to your app

  What A, CNAME, TXT, MX and the other DNS records do, why the bare domain is the tricky one, and the exact steps to point a domain you own at a hosted app without breaking your email.

• Environment variables and API keys: keeping secrets out of your code

  Which keys are safe in the browser and which must stay on a server, how .env files and host settings work, the framework prefixes that quietly make a secret public, and what to do in the first hour after a key leaks.

• How to back up a production database and test the restore

  The three kinds of database backup, what your host already keeps and what it doesn’t, the pg_dump and pg_restore commands for a Postgres copy you control, and a 30-minute restore drill that proves the backup works.

• Static, server-rendered or serverless: which hosting your app needs

  What static hosting, server-side rendering, serverless functions and always-on servers each do, the limits that matter (timeouts, payload sizes, sleeping free tiers), and five questions that tell you which one your app needs.

• What it costs to host a small web app in 2026, with real numbers

  Line-by-line monthly costs for hosting a small web app with a database, using current prices from Vercel, Supabase, Neon, Render, Railway, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare and Resend, plus the overages and add-ons that change the total.

• Launch checklist for an AI-built app: what to check before real users

  A practical pre-launch checklist for apps built with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or ChatGPT: access control, secrets, sign-in flows, backups, email, errors, limits, legal basics and a rollback plan, with how to test each one.

• HTTPS and SSL certificates explained for non-developers

  What HTTPS actually protects, what a certificate is and how it gets issued, why certificate lifetimes are shrinking from 398 days to 47 by 2029, and how to fix the usual causes of “Not secure” warnings on your app.

• Best hosting for vibe-coded apps (2026)

  Eight ways to put an app built with ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Replit or Lovable online with a database and logins, ranked for people who would rather not run infrastructure, with current prices from each provider.

• Best free hosting for web apps with a database (2026)

  Eight free plans that give a web app a real database, ranked by how far they take a small app before you must pay, with the exact limits, the conditions that catch people out, and worked examples of what the quotas mean.

• Floot vs Vercel + Supabase

  A side-by-side comparison of Floot and the Vercel plus Supabase stack for hosting an app built with AI: what each includes, what setup looks like, what a small app costs on each, and who should choose which.