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Hosting was the most tricky part to describe - first of all, because there are so many companies and I wanted to keep the list short (otherwise it's not helpful). The second reason is that everyone has different opinions on the hosting companies - for example, one person can have a great experience with Godaddy and someone else will have a very bad one. So I decided to go for the DigitalOcean and Linode as they have a rather good reputation among developers and AWS, as they are popular among many developers (+ they come with a huge amount of other services that you can use). Plus Heroku with their free plan.

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If you're going to mention AWS, you should also be mentioning GCE and Azure, as each can be the cheapest/best under certain circumstances. It'd be even better if you analyzed their offerings to give people an idea of when to choose each offering. I'd also like to see at least one static site hosting company (Netlify?) listed since they can be a lot cheaper than the big cloud companies if that's all you need.

In general, I didn't find this list particularly useful. There wasn't a single product on your list that I'm not intimately familiar with, and I'm not the sort of person that really keeps an ear close to the ground on these sort of things. The categories of SaaS products you recommend are pretty limited. It could be useful if you indexed more providers in more categories and then asked some basic questions to cull the list down to a personalized recommendation for your reader's needs. But short of that, there's little here that you wouldn't get from five minutes on StackShare.

I completely agree with you - if you know all of the services that are mentioned here, you are probably well more experienced developer ("deployer"?) than me or other people that are the main audience for DeployStack. As for AWS, I mostly mention their LightSail plan, which is quite simple and straightforward (as in the case of Linode and DigitalOcean). GCE and Azure are definitely great tools and I see many people complaining about the lack of them on the website, but they are way more advanced than the scope of the DeployStack, at least for now. Thanks for the feedback, I will keep that in mind and try to add some more advanced sections in the future!

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