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Curious to know, have you tried Render? What is the successor to Heroku in your eyes?

brundolf 3y ago
Render has been my drop-in successor to Heroku. No complaints except their weird team pricing, which doesn't matter for solo projects
- anacrolix 3y ago
  Render didn't support Docker images last I checked, and the worst part of Heroku and cloning it was not actually having a locally reproducible build image. I want to deploy what I've built locally, not hand my source over to some magical pipeline.
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  - renderjake 3y ago
    We recently added support for deploying images from container registries. Currently in early access.
  - brundolf 3y ago
    Different strokes. Personally I avoid Docker in favor of source-code-deployment; the "magical pipeline" is usually just "git pull and then run a provided command". But Render does support Dockerfiles for eg. installing a runtime like Deno that isn't provided out of the box
shafyy 3y ago
Scalingo is a good drop-in replacement for Heroku. They even use Heorku build packs. They've got good support and are an EU company with hosting in EU (if that's important to you).
arrowsmith 3y ago
If you're deploying an Elixir/Phoenix app, then Gigalixir has worked really well for me. It's expensive, but then so is Heroku.
- heeton 3y ago
  What’s their reliability been like? Am I right in thinking the platform got bought a little while ago, and it’s being run by a relatively small outfit?
  - arrowsmith 3y ago
    I've been using them for the last ~10 months or so to run http://PhoenixOnRails.com http://PhoenixOnRails.com. Gigalixir have been 100% reliable for me so far, but it's a low-traffic app - I can't tell you what it's like to run a big app on them at scale. I don't know who owns them but I do get the impression it's a small team. Hasn't been an issue for me so far. Their customer service has been very helpful and responsive on the rare occasions I've needed to contact them

Render has been my drop-in successor to Heroku. No complaints except their weird team pricing, which doesn't matter for solo projects

anacrolix 3y ago
Render didn't support Docker images last I checked, and the worst part of Heroku and cloning it was not actually having a locally reproducible build image. I want to deploy what I've built locally, not hand my source over to some magical pipeline.
- deleted 3y ago
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- renderjake 3y ago
  We recently added support for deploying images from container registries. Currently in early access.
- brundolf 3y ago
  Different strokes. Personally I avoid Docker in favor of source-code-deployment; the "magical pipeline" is usually just "git pull and then run a provided command". But Render does support Dockerfiles for eg. installing a runtime like Deno that isn't provided out of the box

shafyy 3y ago

Scalingo is a good drop-in replacement for Heroku. They even use Heorku build packs. They've got good support and are an EU company with hosting in EU (if that's important to you).

arrowsmith 3y ago

If you're deploying an Elixir/Phoenix app, then Gigalixir has worked really well for me. It's expensive, but then so is Heroku.

heeton 3y ago
What’s their reliability been like? Am I right in thinking the platform got bought a little while ago, and it’s being run by a relatively small outfit?
- arrowsmith 3y ago
  I've been using them for the last ~10 months or so to run http://PhoenixOnRails.com http://PhoenixOnRails.com. Gigalixir have been 100% reliable for me so far, but it's a low-traffic app - I can't tell you what it's like to run a big app on them at scale. I don't know who owns them but I do get the impression it's a small team. Hasn't been an issue for me so far. Their customer service has been very helpful and responsive on the rare occasions I've needed to contact them