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While I agree with your disdain, I have to remind you that there's a lot more to Heroku than just hardware. I mean, after all, they're sitting atop AWS. I can'
by joshmn 10y ago
While I agree with your disdain, I have to remind you that there's a lot more to Heroku than just hardware. I mean, after all, they're sitting atop AWS.
I can't go anywhere else do service create followed by git push service master and be ready to go within a minute.
- mderazon 10y agoYou could go with Dokku and host it on a $5 Digital Ocean instance. Almost the same features plus you can install a Let's Encrypt plugin to handle SSL for free. Main difference is that you can't scale up - doesn't have that whole dynos thing. https://github.com/dokku/dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku
- jdietrich 10y agoThe fully-loaded cost of a good engineer is $150-$300/hr. Unless you're operating at serious scale, the cost of Heroku is a rounding error.
- lotyrin 10y agoHow much would you pay a month, not to get paged when your single point of failure there fails, or you get traffic that outpaces it, or any of a number of other things? I'd pay more than 20 dollars.
- joshmn 10y agoThat's actually exactly what I do now for most of my projects. But it doesn't replace having to keep your OS updated, dangling with firewalls, etc.
- dahdum 10y agoYou're right, I was a fan of them early on for the development ease and I still think they do a great job there. However the premium you pay for that experience continues to rise, while the alternatives are expanding dramatically (GC, AWS, DO, other PaaS).
- kkirsche 10y agoI disagree. A good deployment tool like Ansible, puppet, chef or salt can make deployment dead simple with little to no work
- elithrar 10y agoMonitoring? Updates? Shipping WAL logs and knowing a rollback will work when you need it?