Remix app hosting

[Ionuts1]

Hi, I recently created a small application to understand how the remix and app submit system works, when it came to the deployment part I tried with a vps from hostinger but failed, in the end someone recommended render.com, it works perfectly but the costs are a bit high for such a small application.
How did you do it and what advice can you give me? I'd much prefer to have control of the application myself using a VPS but I haven't managed to configure remix.js properly.
If you have any resources or advice how I could host remix.js on VPS and give up render.com because it is very expensive.
Thank you

[Huptech-Web]

Hello @Ionuts1 
You can use fly.io or Heroku for deployment. Shopify provides all the necessary steps here: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/deployment/web. If you prefer more control over your infrastructure, you can opt for self-hosting on a VPS provider like DigitalOcean, Linode, or AWS EC2.

[Ionuts1]

Fly.io has quote on usage which i don't want, heroku the same, on DigitalOcean have you managed to deploy a remix app and make it work?

[Huptech-Web]

Hey @Ionuts1 
I'm not deploying a Remix app on DigitalOcean, but I have some guidance for deploying on DigitalOcean. You can find it in this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOysnl2Yo4s

[simone_bogni]

Hi, thank you for the video, but the request was for a Remix app.
In the video you linked, they are clearly using the Node template.
From what I tested before, deploying a Shopify Remix app to Digital Ocean is extremely cumbersome - in my team we had to opt for Fly.io for that specific app and we agreed to not build with the Remix template anymore.
I wish the Shopify team will release a doc for the deployment on Digital Ocean.