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What are some good Heroku alternatives these days?

by productceo 4y ago

kenrose 4y ago
Render.com
- henryaj 4y ago
  Stuff like this worries me - https://community.render.com/t/genuine-question-why-does-render-feel-so-unreliable/3907 https://community.render.com/t/genuine-question-why-does-ren...
  - anurag 4y ago
    (Render founder) Stuff like ^ worries me even more. What keeps me sane is our engineering team obsessing over reliability, and learning from every single incident, no matter how small. We're improving every day.
oxff 4y ago
I've seen fly/io and render/com mentioned in these Heroku discussions, but I have yet to test either of them.
SkyPuncher 4y ago
Aptible (though geared more towards Healthcare/Compliance space). ^ Note: I use to work for Aptible. Great company. Great people. Now working for one of their spin outs.
- btoro 4y ago
  This is super cool. I think you just saved me a massive headache, as I plan to roll out a healthcare app with PHI in the next few months.
  - SkyPuncher 4y ago
    A healthcare startup is exactly how I got started with them. Makes it dead simple to cover all of the basics.
estas 4y ago
Porter.run
ksajadi 4y ago
Cloud 66
fatih-erikli 4y ago
Cloudflare workers are pretty good if you are running something in Nodejs stack.
beninsydney 4y ago
Digital Ocean's "App Platform" is pretty nice, although not as slick as Heroku - https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform Railway.app is pretty nice, very slick interface, this has the most "heroku-feel" - https://railway.app https://railway.app
- bluehatbrit 4y ago
  I've used the DO App platform, generally it's pretty solid but getting up and running was miserable. The documentation is really thin and there's a bunch I just had to discover along the way, in particular while getting up and running with a DB as it's not clear how the certs are delivered into the environment variables etc. It's been solid since I got up and running but took me about a day to get a simple CRUD app moved over to it. If they can improve the documentation it'll be much better. Right now I'm not considering it for future projects though just because platforms like Fly.io and Render seem to have better docs and additional functionality that DO Apps doesn't have yet.
zoomzoom 4y ago
Heroku alternatives have gone in a few different directions: - next-gen PasS that are more opinionated and offer wider range of services. Also can be cheaper. examples are Digital ocean, Railway or render - Performance-focused PaaS like fly.io - "Heroku in your own cloud" like porter.dev, architect.io or quovery - k8s tooling like garden.io, ReleaseHub, even gitlab - these are often geared more towards internal DevOps teams at larger orgs when compared to the very low-lift PasS providers - serverless providers - like cloudflare functions, AWS lambda, GCP Cloud Run - Vercel/Netlify - SPA + serverless with a great developer experience - Replit - kind of in a category of their own but they have integrated hosting/datastores/user auth Lots of awesome products here, I'd argue that only replit is a true 10x change from the Heroku innovations in terms of providing a next-gen developer experience. I'm the cofounder of a new company called Coherence, that we think creates a new direction and offers a better platform for the next leap forward. By integrating from dev to prod and capturing the whole SDLC, as well as by operating in your own cloud, we're focused on delivering the best developer experience possible, without compromising anywhere else. Check us out at https://www.withcoherence.com https://www.withcoherence.com. We're in an early closed beta so not yet a fit for all teams, but feedback is welcome!
ibayramli 4y ago
https://porter.run/ https://porter.run/

What are some good Heroku alternatives these days?

kenrose 4y ago

Render.com

henryaj 4y ago
Stuff like this worries me - https://community.render.com/t/genuine-question-why-does-render-feel-so-unreliable/3907 https://community.render.com/t/genuine-question-why-does-ren...
- anurag 4y ago
  (Render founder) Stuff like ^ worries me even more. What keeps me sane is our engineering team obsessing over reliability, and learning from every single incident, no matter how small. We're improving every day.

oxff 4y ago

I've seen fly/io and render/com mentioned in these Heroku discussions, but I have yet to test either of them.

SkyPuncher 4y ago

Aptible (though geared more towards Healthcare/Compliance space). ^ Note: I use to work for Aptible. Great company. Great people. Now working for one of their spin outs.

btoro 4y ago
This is super cool. I think you just saved me a massive headache, as I plan to roll out a healthcare app with PHI in the next few months.
- SkyPuncher 4y ago
  A healthcare startup is exactly how I got started with them. Makes it dead simple to cover all of the basics.

estas 4y ago

Porter.run

ksajadi 4y ago

Cloud 66

fatih-erikli 4y ago

Cloudflare workers are pretty good if you are running something in Nodejs stack.

beninsydney 4y ago

Digital Ocean's "App Platform" is pretty nice, although not as slick as Heroku - https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform Railway.app is pretty nice, very slick interface, this has the most "heroku-feel" - https://railway.app https://railway.app

bluehatbrit 4y ago
I've used the DO App platform, generally it's pretty solid but getting up and running was miserable. The documentation is really thin and there's a bunch I just had to discover along the way, in particular while getting up and running with a DB as it's not clear how the certs are delivered into the environment variables etc. It's been solid since I got up and running but took me about a day to get a simple CRUD app moved over to it. If they can improve the documentation it'll be much better. Right now I'm not considering it for future projects though just because platforms like Fly.io and Render seem to have better docs and additional functionality that DO Apps doesn't have yet.

zoomzoom 4y ago

Heroku alternatives have gone in a few different directions: - next-gen PasS that are more opinionated and offer wider range of services. Also can be cheaper. examples are Digital ocean, Railway or render - Performance-focused PaaS like fly.io - "Heroku in your own cloud" like porter.dev, architect.io or quovery - k8s tooling like garden.io, ReleaseHub, even gitlab - these are often geared more towards internal DevOps teams at larger orgs when compared to the very low-lift PasS providers - serverless providers - like cloudflare functions, AWS lambda, GCP Cloud Run - Vercel/Netlify - SPA + serverless with a great developer experience - Replit - kind of in a category of their own but they have integrated hosting/datastores/user auth Lots of awesome products here, I'd argue that only replit is a true 10x change from the Heroku innovations in terms of providing a next-gen developer experience. I'm the cofounder of a new company called Coherence, that we think creates a new direction and offers a better platform for the next leap forward. By integrating from dev to prod and capturing the whole SDLC, as well as by operating in your own cloud, we're focused on delivering the best developer experience possible, without compromising anywhere else. Check us out at https://www.withcoherence.com https://www.withcoherence.com. We're in an early closed beta so not yet a fit for all teams, but feedback is welcome!

ibayramli 4y ago

https://porter.run/ https://porter.run/