Deployment options

Mochi is a serverful application, so it does not run on every serverless host. That is what gives Mochi its features: built-in SQLite, in-memory cache, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events. You can build complex, data-driven realtime apps with no extra dependency and no external cloud services.

You can host Bun and Mochi at hundreds of hosts. Some popular options are below. For how a build behaves once it is deployed — relocatable output, a persistent image cache — see Production builds.

PaaS

Deploy code or containers. The platform manages infrastructure, scaling, and networking.

• 🇺🇸 Railway — dedicated Bun and Docker support
• 🇺🇸 Render — Docker-based web services, Git-push deploys
• 🇺🇸 Fly.io — Docker-native, global edge, scale-to-zero
• 🇺🇸 Heroku — supports Docker deployments
• 🇫🇷 Koyeb — Git or Docker, 250+ edge locations
• 🇫🇷 Clever Cloud — native Bun / Docker support
• 🇺🇸 Zeabur — auto-detects Bun
• 🇫🇷 Scaleway Serverless Containers — deploy from any registry, billed per millisecond
• 🇺🇸 DigitalOcean App Platform — Git or Docker deploy

Traditional VPS / IaaS

You get a server, install Bun yourself, and manage the process (systemd, Docker).

• 🇩🇪 Hetzner — very cheap, popular with indie devs
• 🇺🇸 DigitalOcean Droplets — simple cloud VMs
• 🇫🇷 OVHcloud — dedicated servers, VPS, private cloud, with strong GDPR compliance
• 🇫🇷 Scaleway Instances — VMs alongside their serverless offering
• 🇺🇸 Vultr
• 🇺🇸 Akamai / Linode
• 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Kamatera — pay-as-you-go cloud VMs

Big cloud

Each offers VPS, serverless, containers, and Kubernetes. Pick the model that fits.

• 🇺🇸 AWS — EC2, Lambda + Web Adapter, Fargate, App Runner, ECS/EKS
• 🇺🇸 Google Cloud — Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions
• 🇺🇸 Azure — VMs, Container Apps, ACI, AKS
• 🇺🇸 Oracle Cloud — generous always-free ARM VMs
• 🇺🇸 IBM Cloud — VPC, Code Engine, IKS/OpenShift

Self-hosted tools

Install these on a VPS from one of the providers above.

• Coolify — open-source, self-hosted PaaS
• Dokku — open-source mini-Heroku
• CapRover — open-source PaaS with web UI

Hosted tools

Connect to your existing infrastructure at different cloud providers.

• 🇬🇧 Northflank — containers, jobs, and APIs, with bring-your-own-cloud
• 🇮🇳 Kuberns — Git-push deploy on AWS infra, no Dockerfile
• 🇺🇸 Convox

Where these companies are based

The flag next to each provider above shows where the company is headquartered, not where its data centers are.