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Heroku is not even close to being an alternative. Their free dynos sleep after 30 mins of inactivity.

• dubcanada 6y ago
  You can just setup a free website monitor or something to ping the site every 5 minutes to prevent that.
  • JamesSwift 6y ago
    This isn't as much of a free lunch as it used to be back in the day. Heroku modified its method for gifting "free hours" and so there is a possibility that your dynos wont actually run when you need them to if you are preventing them from sleeping. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/free-dyno-hours https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/free-dyno-hours
  • pier25 6y ago
    True, but why even do that when you have Netlify/Vercel/Firebase giving you a better service for free? For example, with Heroku you don't get a CDN. You can setup Cloudflare but it's an extra step. If you're setting up a SPA you don't get re-routes to index.html either.
    • dubcanada 6y ago
      I am certainly not pro this website, in fact this website seems to basically just be full of Buzzfeed type keyword stuffed articles about nothing. But I was just adding on if you did want to do this, you certainly could. Why would you? Heroku does have a lot of very nice components on it that can make it appealing for someone already using Heroku. But I agree, Netlify/others would be better.