Heroku is awesome for this use case, but there are also great alternatives based on Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry is an open source PaaS with support for Heroku

Heroku is awesome for this use case, but there are also great alternatives based on Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry is an open source PaaS with support for Heroku buildpacks + docker containers. At a median of ~5€/GB RAM per month they will also be a bit cheaper than Heroku. Some providers that offer Cloud Foundry including a free tier for small Apps: - Meshcloud (hosted in Germany, 2 Locations) https://panel.meshcloud.io/#/register https://panel.meshcloud.io/#/register (Disclaimer: I'm a founder there) - Pivotal Web Services (hosted on AWS US): https://run.pivotal.io/ https://run.pivotal.io/ - IBM Bluemix https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/ https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/ (various locations, a bit more expensive than the other two though)