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Why should you use Cranl.com?
- @cipherat0/ justfuckingusecranl.com
Let’s see why should you use Cranl.com over others VPS services :)
Railway
- Plan : Hobby
- Billing model : Usage-based ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Hobby base fee : $5.00
- App compute (512MB / 0.5 vCPU) : $5 – $8
- Postgres (1 GB RAM) : $5 – $10
- CDN and also S3 storage not included :(
But…
Cranl.com
- Plan : Pro
- Billing model : Flat-price
- More flexiable
- Github deploy supported
- Sandboxes supported
- CLI + REST API + MCP
- Traffic analytics supported
- SSL supported
- Great DDoS Protection and Security
- Primarly based in MENA region (KSA-EGY-UAE-and coming soon more…)
- Also supporting India - Europe - USA
- Supporting Odoo , Wordpress , Mattermost and Openclaw
- Can be supporting Static-web generators frameworks such as : Jekyll , Hugo and Quarto ;-) .
Same app. Same DB. What you actually pay. Railway bills by the minute. Your invoice is different every month. CranL doesn’t.
Five things you don’t find it in anywhere else in the MENA :
MENA region.
Saudi Arabia + Egypt. Live now. Nobody else has a server in the Gulf.
S3 storage
Compatible with boto3, rclone, the AWS SDK. No extra product, no extra bill.
CDN on any origin.
3 zones, unlimited bandwidth. Point it at anything, not just CranL-hosted apps.
Cron jobs — native.
Scheduled tasks built into the platform. No workarounds, no third-party glue.
MCP integration.
Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, your AI coding assistant can deploy for you.
Comparsion between cranl.com versus others
| Platform | Price / mo | Predictable price | MENA region | S3 storage | CDN included | MCP / AI deploy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Railway | $5 + usage | No | No | No | No | No |
| Render | $7/service | No | No | No | No | No |
| Heroku | $7+/dyno | No | No | No | No | No |
| Vercel Pro | $20+ | No | No | No | edge only | No |
| Fly.io | usage | No | No | No | No | No |
| CranL Pro | $9.99 flat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Save your money and using cranl.com …
Useful links
- Cranl Docs
- Justfuckingusecranl.com
- Cranl Founder and Chief Manager Ali
- Techinal Writer and Data Scientist Saad Almalki/0xSaad
- Software Engineer Salman Alghamdi/Cipherat