easy deploy, generous free tiers

• vercel
• netlify

many people deploy on vercel/netlify first and once they get a good amount of users switch to coolify on a VPS.

• coolify: self-hosted open source alternative to vercel/netlify.
• dokploy, similar to coolify

cloud provider's

AWS
google cloud
digital ocean
azure
oracle: best free tier IMO
firebase?
hasura?

web hosting services

these combine domain name registrar and hosting services. some even have website builders.
mainly looking for Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting.

• hostinger, cheap
• hetzner, cheapest
• costabo
• godaddy

content delivery (CDN)

cloud flare is goated apparently for their CDN as well as their DDOS protection. But they also have Web App Firewall (WAF)
to use cloudflare ddos protection you must use their DNS