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> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting Nove
by cmg 4y ago
> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users.
Sad to see this, but not surprised after the Salesforce purchase. Heroku was a great place for hobbyists and tiny one-off projects. What's a good alternative?
- tf2_pyro 4y agofly.io i think - never tried it but HN feedback has been pretty positive on it
- aarondf 4y agoI have tried it and found it to be really really good. It's a little more DIY than Heroku, but not by too much. They are moving really fast too, hiring people to focus on specific use cases (Laravel, Rails, etc.) If you're making heavy use of Heroku addons, you'll probably miss that quite a bit.
- shepherdjerred 4y agoI've tried it for a small project. It's about as easy to use as Heroku.
- mcintyre1994 4y agoFly is really good. If you go over the free tier limits by under $5 they don't charge too, which gives a bit more flexibility on hobby projects.
- intelVISA 4y agoIt has potential, the VMM is a bit Rusty...
- gsch73 4y agoHave been using mogenius.com, they have a pretty generous free tier and lots of cloud-native features
- theodorton 4y agoHaven’t tried them out yet, but railway.app looks promising. Same for fly.io
- h1fra 4y agoI can't believe they are killing the free tier? :o What a drastic change in strategy !
- iends 4y agoHaven't used them personally, but https://render.com/ https://render.com/ has been highly recommended here.
- shafyy 4y agoI have just recently deployed a small Rails project on Render and I really like it so far. Good docs, great UI.
- aaronbrethorst 4y agoRender is great but doesn’t offer a long-term usable free tier for database-backed projects. However, if you’re looking to move a project that costs you money off Heroku, you’re likely to be quite happy with the price-performance ratio that Render offers. I certainly am. https://render.com/docs/migrate-from-heroku https://render.com/docs/migrate-from-heroku
- paulcarroty 4y agoGood UI with great stats, but stopped using after few days 'cause the builds are painfully slow.
- advisedwang 4y agoGoogle App Engine is still useable on the free tier
- riadsila 4y agoI think https://www.koyeb.com/ https://www.koyeb.com/ could be what you are looking for. Let me know what you think! (Disclaimer, I work for Koyeb)
- krthr 4y agoGCP Cloud Run
- asdajksah2123 4y agoDigital Ocean has 3 free apps as far as I'm aware. Those have basically been super easy to setup and forget for me. I have a few websites running off it for a couple of years with no maintenance on my part.
- TKAB 4y agoI've found https://dokku.com https://dokku.com to be a great (self-hosted) alternative to heroku. For hobby and small company size a cheap root server will do great. I've been running one at Hetzner for ~5EUR/month for more than a year now and had a very smooth experience.
- jacooper 4y agoThere is also https://caprover.com https://caprover.com, which seems to be more advanced and supports compose and docker swarm.
- intelVISA 4y agoThink even Azure has a (crappy) free app engine offering as well
- chr15m 4y agoA self hosted and minimal alternative is Piku: https://piku.github.io/ https://piku.github.io/ (disclaimer: I'm a contributor).