Engine Yard is described as 'Cloud is a top Platform as a Service (PaaS) for a wide range of applications, from small-scale web applications that run within a single compute instance, to large-scale enterprise applications that require the reliability, elasticity and performance of' and is a Cloud Hosting service in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Engine Yard, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, SaaS and Self-Hosted apps. The best Engine Yard alternative is Heroku. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OpenStack or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Other great sites and apps similar to Engine Yard are Radius, Google Compute Engine, 1984 Hosting and Qovery.