Your database does not sleep here.
Free Postgres, MySQL or MongoDB with a public connection string, plus a free app and 5 GB of storage. Nothing sleeps. Nothing is deleted for sitting idle. No keep-alive cron to write.
No card required. Invite your whole team at no cost.
The workaround you no longer need
The usual advice is to schedule a job that pings your own database every few minutes so the platform does not reclaim it. You end up maintaining infrastructure whose only purpose is convincing a host you still exist. That is a workaround for a problem we do not have.
Elsewhere
- Database paused after a period of inactivity
- Free projects deleted after 30 days idle
- A cron job whose only purpose is staying awake
- Cold starts on the first request after a quiet night
On ZevCloud
- Runs until you delete it. That is the whole rule.
- Idle for a month? Still running.
- No keep-alive job, because there is nothing to keep alive.
- Same connection string tomorrow as today.
What the free tier actually includes
Real numbers, not "generous limits". The database takes a public connection string, so it works from your laptop, your CI, or a frontend hosted anywhere else.
Free database
- Memory
- 256 MB
- vCPU
- 1
- Storage
- 1 GB
- Connections
- 10
- Public connection string
- yes
- Stops when idle
- no
Free app
- Memory
- 512 MB
- vCPU
- 1
- Storage
- 1 GB
- Bandwidth
- 10 GB
- Public URL
- yes, on *.zevcloud.app
- Stops when idle
- no
Deploy straight from GitHub. Static sites too.
Free storage
- Included
- 5 GB
- Egress
- 10 GB / month
- Buckets
- 1
- S3 compatible
- yes
- Bucket access
- private
- Expires when idle
- no
Use any AWS SDK or CLI you already know. Files are reached through signed URLs; serving them on a public URL is a paid plan.
Where free stops
You are here because a platform did the disappointing thing quietly. So here is ours, in advance.
No backups on the free database
Free is for prototypes, learning, and side projects. If the data matters, a paid plan adds daily backups and point-in-time recovery.
No custom domain on free apps
Your app gets a real HTTPS URL on *.zevcloud.app. Pointing your own domain at it is a paid-plan feature.
Five free services per team
Enough for an app, its database, storage, and two more. Past that is where paying starts, and not before.
Ship today
Create a database that stays up.
Free PostgreSQL, MySQL or MongoDB with a public connection string. Deploy your app beside it, invite your whole team, and pay nothing until you outgrow it. Pick up where you left off. Your services and team are one click away. Pick up where you left off. Your services and team are one click away.