Greetings!

We are a startup company, and recently, we launched our first PHP-based project. We have been using VPS hosting for the last 2 weeks but noticed it is an expensive choice for beginner companies like us. Therefore, our team initiated deploying and hosting our frontend and backend on a free platform. Hereof, we unearthed this source https://blog.back4app.com/how-to-host-frontend-and-backend/ very conducive because it guides about hosting server-side and client-side.

Indeed, our dev team is planning to proceed with Back4app and is willing to commence our venture with its 2 products: Back4app Containers & BaaS. There is no doubt that Back4app is a premium cloud computing solution, but as a startup, when we need fewer computing resources, we can surely proceed with the free tier of its CaaS and BaaS offerings. Luckily, we can also approach its core dashboard for free to analyze the performance of our project.

On the contrary, a few of our teammates are also in favour of Firebase. Withal, I am not sure whether Firebase offers a Dockerized environment to set up frontends or not. If any of you guys know of it, you can share it here.

All in all, I need your advice on this matter.