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Aren't they just a middleman for AWS anyway?
by YourMatt 7y ago
Aren't they just a middleman for AWS anyway?
- hnzix 7y agoAWS is infrastructure as a service (IaaS). You need to worry about load balancers, backup scripts, firewalls etc. Ie you need a plausible sysadmin to run it. Even Elastic Beanstalk requires some sysadmin. Heroku is platform as a service (PaaS). It abstracts away the complexity of AWS. The base cost is more expensive than raw AWS but you don't need to source and pay for a sysadmin. AWS, Heroku and DO aren't "better" than each other, they serve different use cases.
- serverQuestion 7y agoI have been dreaming of running my own heroku like interface on a DO droplet. Just for small sites, side projects and such. With heroku you need to pay to keep things running, though sadly with DO you need to do a lot of sysadmin work to keep things running.
- slig 7y agoHave you tried Dokku?
- jdance 7y agoAfter failing with Heroku we migrated to using Dokku on DO. And yes it is more work to do it ourselves, I didn't want to do that but here we are :) It was not a lot of work, dokku is really nice, but it was/is some work. I was hoping for almost no sysadmin work but that didn't happen.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoCaprover's probably the closest I've experienced, but there was still a bit to do.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoWhat... no. Install Caprover or Flynn or any of a dozen systems that provide Heroku-like functionality.