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general

How is it different from traditional cloud services?

Where the deployed apps are hosted?

I just added a new project to my github repo but I am not seeing the project listed here on hostman

Do your databases include some kind of automatic backups?

Do you have 1 click installs like DO?

Is this method applicable to deploy the WordPress site?

billing

Can I have a "commercial" static site hosted for free?

Am I going to be charged for hosting a NuxtJS application?

back-end apps

Do you also cover distributed servers once the need to scale my API geographically arises?

If I'm splitting the server and client like I am now, I have to target specific endpoints based on IP or similar?

So what's my best bet? A Docker instance of a load balancer?

The app can scale in a location-based on demand, right?

As for the private network IP, is this available directly from any service I have running on my account?

If I have a project that requires backend software and a DB, do I have to pay for both separately?

Is there any restriction to what modules/libraries I can install on the backend service? For example Python modules or Node.js packages. Is there a list of the allowed ones?

Do you offer Java api backend?

How do i close/stop my container? don't like to pay for an empty laravel installation

How do i upload my WP files?

Does your service allow for auto-scaling and load balancing?

How to deploy docker-compose?

front-end apps

How many website visitors your hosting can support in same time?

How does the "free" static hosting works?

How to make sure my react app runs only HTTPS and redirect from HTTP?

How does someone go about deploying an app that has node on the backend and vue on the frontend?

I wonder if whatever I commit to the github repository, will be automatically deployed?

So I see the bandwidth is 100 GB/mo. What if I exceed that limit?

Do I have to build a Jekyll website on my PC and upload it or can I build it on Hostman?

domains

I recently registered a new domain. How long does it take for Hostman to find?

What about a mailing server for the domain?

I have a domain from godaddy, how do i add it to my project ?