Infrastructure_
Where to run apps, databases, agent sandboxes and logs, compared on price and limits.
Comparisons
All 7 in infrastructure
- Email providers compared: Proton, Gmail, Fastmail, Outlook (2026)14 email services compared for developers, founders and small teams: Proton Mail, Gmail and Google Workspace, Fastmail, Microsoft 365, iCloud+, Zoho, Tuta, mailbox, Posteo, Infomaniak, Migadu, Purelymail, Forward Email and HEY. Price per user, your own domain, aliases, encryption, IMAP and JMAP, with decision rules.
- Domain registrars compared: Cloudflare, Porkbun, GoDaddy (2026)13 registrars compared on security keys, registry lock, DNSSEC, hijackings, takedowns and what happens if a registrar fails, with register, renewal and transfer prices for .com, .dev, .io, .ai and .app and five-year totals. Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap, GoDaddy, Squarespace, Route 53, Gandi, INWX and more.
- Log management compared: Datadog, Grafana, Better Stack, Axiom and moreWhat 5 GB and 500 GB of logs a month cost on Datadog, Grafana Cloud, New Relic, Elastic, Better Stack, Axiom, Sentry and 14 more. Plus which PaaS hosts drain logs to which service, and how query languages, retention, alerting and self-hosting compare.
- Where to host Postgres in 2026: RDS, Neon, Supabase and 20 moreWhat the smallest Postgres instance costs per month and what it costs to scale, on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Neon, Supabase, PlanetScale and 17 more, from serverless to self-hosting. Plus upgrade downtime, versions, extensions, HA, backups, pooling and rules for picking one.
- Where to host a web app or API in 2026: Vercel, Render, Railway, Fly.io, AWS and 12 more compared on cost, spending caps and lock-inFree tiers, hard spending caps, prices, egress, previews, EU regions, SOC 2 and HIPAA for 17 hosting options, now with Vercel Daemons and AWS Lambda Web Functions, plus decision rules and worked monthly bills.
- Database per AI agent: Turso vs Neon vs Supabase vs Cloudflare D1 comparedGiving each agent its own database: what an idle one costs, how many you can create, cold starts, branching and backups on Turso, Neon, Supabase, Cloudflare D1 and Durable Objects, with rules for picking one.
- Where should your agent run code? 15 hosted sandboxes compared on price, network controls and SDK supportHourly list prices for the same sandbox differ about 5x, idle-shutdown settings can matter more than the rate, and most products let your agent reach the whole internet by default. We compare 15 products on price, network controls, isolation and framework support, and end with rules for picking one.