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Heroku announces plans to eliminate free plans, blaming ‘fraud and abuse’

• numtel 4y ago
  A sad day for my hobby projects. Can we list any free alternatives for hosting app servers that get very little traffic?
• midislack 4y ago
  I never got a good explanation as to what Heroku even is.
  • jononor 4y ago
    Push your web application to their git endpoint and Heroku runs it for you. As long as you follow the best practices for your language it will just work. Python, Node.js, Ruby, Java, et.c. Two clicks in UI (or CLI commands, or configuration lines) and it will also run a database for your app. Same if you need a message broker. Searchable logs. Blob storage. Horizonal scaling? Drag a slider, single command. Heroku provides zero bullshit deployment.
    • midislack 4y ago
      Basically some kind of cloud orchestration. Thanks.
• jononor 4y ago
  Seems they are giving up getting new people onto the platform. That seems very short sighted. Almost everyone starts out on free. Probably means they are, or soon will be, stagnating. Which is very sad, as Heroku has an excellent web hosting experience and has server me well at multiple startups. Will be evaluating other options when I next start something, which I have not bothered the last 5 years.