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@@ -746,9 +746,12 @@ If you want to see a really cool real-time dashboard check out this [live exampl
 Deployment
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+Once you are ready to deploy your app, you will need to create an account with a cloud platform to host it. These are not
+the only choices, but they are my top picks. Create an account with **MongoLab** and then pick one of the 4 providers
+below. Once again, there are plenty of other choices and you are not limited to just the ones listed below. From my
+experience, **Heroku** is the easiest to get started with, it will automatically restart your node.js process when it crashes, custom domain support on free accounts, hot push deployments, and *Hackathon Starter* already includes `Procfile`, which is necessary for deployment to **Heroku**.
 
 <img src="http://i.imgur.com/7KnCa5a.png" width="200">
-
 - Open [mongolab.com](https://mongolab.com) website
 - Click the yellow **Sign up** button
 - Fill in your user information then hit **Create account**
@@ -765,6 +768,7 @@ Deployment
 - Finally, in `secrets.js` instead of `db: 'localhost'`, use the following URI with your credentials:
  - `db: 'mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds027479.mongolab.com:27479/<dbname>'`
 
+**:exclamation:Note**: As an alternative to MongoLab there is also [MongoHQ[(http://www.mongohq.com/home).
 
 ### Heroku