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Heroku is no doubt the easiest to set up and use. I find their free tier too restrictive, however, since (1) apps are put to sleep pretty aggressively and take
by paxy 8y ago
Heroku is no doubt the easiest to set up and use. I find their free tier too restrictive, however, since (1) apps are put to sleep pretty aggressively and take time to wake up, resulting in failed requests and (2) they have a set quota for total free hours/month across all apps on your account.
GCP free tier provides a lot more in comparison (app engine hours, cloud storage, memcache, pub/sub, cron, egress, cloud functions and more), but you have to be willing to tolerate the vendor lock-in.
- duxup 8y agoYeah I'm slowly becoming more annoyed by how quickly Heroku puts things to sleep.
- freedomben 8y agotake a look at gigalixir.com. I'm moving an app over there right now and they don't do the annoying sleep thing, or the daily restarts. You also get a free 10k row db. Pricing is reasonable if/when you want to scale later too. More expensive than rolling it on GCE yourself, but you get all the convenience of the heroku workflow.