By Donald Zou
As the title stated, I want to know see if App Platform is the most cost-effective for hosting them, and can I host all in one app or i have to 40 different apps and each of them cost $5/month?
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Heya, @donaldzouchenghong
App Platform is great for ease of use, but it’s not magically “$5 for 40 Next.js sites” unless you architect them as a single multi-tenant app or as static sites. By default, 40 independent dynamic Next.js apps on App Platform will be expensive.
If you’re okay architecturally, build a single multi-tenant Next.js app and host all sites as one App Platform service. That’s the sweet spot: you pay for one service, scale it as needed, and still get managed deploys.
If your priority is raw cost for 40 fully separate dynamic sites, a couple of Droplets with nginx + Node (or something like Dokku/capRover) will almost certainly be cheaper, because you can pack many apps onto the same VM and share resources.
Regards
Another approach is using a VPS or managed host you could run multiple Next.js apps with PM2 or Docker. This gives you more control over build pipelines and resource allocation though it is a bit more setup than App Platform.
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