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There are more options than Heroku: - Google App Engine (PaaS) - Google Cloud Run (serverless containers) - Fly.io (serverless containers with a minimum of 1

by pier25 6y ago

There are more options than Heroku: - Google App Engine (PaaS) - Google Cloud Run (serverless containers) - Fly.io (serverless containers with a minimum of 1 container running per configured region)

hacklivelove 6y ago
also Jelastic PaaS, and the price is more flexible there
dubcanada 6y ago
FortRabbit.com Platform.sh There is probably a good hundred of them at this point.
- iagovar 6y ago
  https://scalingo.com/ https://scalingo.com/ too.
ledgerdev 6y ago
Fly.io is more exciting for me because it's edge app servers and it terminates web sockets. I've been envisioning a live-view like framework, or heck even a regular old rest api, where the client connects to the fly.io server with a single request then the app server makes a request to N number of back end processing servers using an efficient protocol like grpc.
- Existenceblinks 6y ago
  The only missing piece for fly.io is data layer. The given redis is only for caching purpose. Once there is a managed distributed data store add-on, it's done. It's very likely liveview will need to hit database. Right now pubsub with redis adapter is the easiest solution for cross-region phoenix application (well, phoenix IS my application!)
- frafra 6y ago
  It is cool, but it does not scale to zero, so if you have N services you will end up paying for at least N instances.
  - pier25 6y ago
    That's a good thing actually since it means you never have cold starts (unlike Google Cloud Run). Their micro instances cost like $3-4 which isn't that much.
    - frafra 6y ago
      It should be an option in my opinion, as cold start time could vary a lot by which image and runtime you are running, if is a Java app or a statically linked Rust program. I have a bunch of very small and simple services, which I run on a single VPN. Moving to fly.io would mean to pay various time more. I tried that, and the service is nice indeed, but not for me I guess.
ksajadi 6y ago
Add to that Cloud 66 as well

by pier25 6y ago

There are more options than Heroku: - Google App Engine (PaaS) - Google Cloud Run (serverless containers) - Fly.io (serverless containers with a minimum of 1 container running per configured region)

hacklivelove 6y ago

also Jelastic PaaS, and the price is more flexible there

dubcanada 6y ago

FortRabbit.com Platform.sh There is probably a good hundred of them at this point.

iagovar 6y ago
https://scalingo.com/ https://scalingo.com/ too.

ledgerdev 6y ago

Fly.io is more exciting for me because it's edge app servers and it terminates web sockets. I've been envisioning a live-view like framework, or heck even a regular old rest api, where the client connects to the fly.io server with a single request then the app server makes a request to N number of back end processing servers using an efficient protocol like grpc.

Existenceblinks 6y ago
The only missing piece for fly.io is data layer. The given redis is only for caching purpose. Once there is a managed distributed data store add-on, it's done. It's very likely liveview will need to hit database. Right now pubsub with redis adapter is the easiest solution for cross-region phoenix application (well, phoenix IS my application!)
frafra 6y ago
It is cool, but it does not scale to zero, so if you have N services you will end up paying for at least N instances.
- pier25 6y ago
  That's a good thing actually since it means you never have cold starts (unlike Google Cloud Run). Their micro instances cost like $3-4 which isn't that much.
  - frafra 6y ago
    It should be an option in my opinion, as cold start time could vary a lot by which image and runtime you are running, if is a Java app or a statically linked Rust program. I have a bunch of very small and simple services, which I run on a single VPN. Moving to fly.io would mean to pay various time more. I tried that, and the service is nice indeed, but not for me I guess.

ksajadi 6y ago

Add to that Cloud 66 as well