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You 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
by mderazon 10y ago
You 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.