Compare Tanzahost
Honest comparisons with cPanel hosting, Heroku, Render, Railway and Vercel: real facts from their own pages, with what each does better.
Updated 17 Oct 2026
Each page below puts Tanzahost next to one other way to host, row by row: how you pay, the free tier, sleeping, databases, domains and SSL, locations, building from GitHub, workers and cron, logs and support. Every fact about the other company comes from its own website, listed on the page with the day we checked it, and every page says what the other company does better.
The comparisons
| Compare with | In one line |
|---|---|
| cPanel hosting | A plan on a shared server, with email and FTP, against paying for use, with apps as well as sites. |
| Heroku | A fixed price per dyno, against paying for the memory and processor an app uses. |
| Render | A workspace plan plus instance types, with a free tier, against no plans at all. |
| Railway | The closest model to ours: paying for use. They add a plan fee and per-second billing. |
| Vercel | Functions on a global network, against whole apps that stay up, with databases beside them. |
How Tanzahost works, in short
No plans or sizes.reading today's prices
A prepaid wallet, topped up by card (Apple Pay and Google Pay too), with a spending cap you choose.
One location per project, with its apps and databases side by side. See our locations.
What we keep honest
Every fact about another company has its source, and the day it was checked.
We check again every 90 days, and whenever a company changes its prices.
When they do something better, we say so. When we don't do something yet, we say that too.
Seen something out of date? Tell us, and we'll check it again.