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So, I don't mean to say that freeloading is not OK, I did it myself without losing sleep. However do consider renting a more capable VPS for personal needs - on

So, I don't mean to say that freeloading is not OK, I did it myself without losing sleep. However do consider renting a more capable VPS for personal needs - on DigitalOcean the cheapest instance with 512 MB of RAM and 20 GB SSD is $5. Or $10 if you want 1 GB RAM / 30GB of SSD. And there's a lot you can do with a personal instance, like hosting several websites, hosting your own MySQL, having your own email server just for the kicks, using it as a VPN and so on and so forth. I also subscribed for AWS's Free Tier and now I have a m2.micro instance and traffic included for their CDN for one year and I'm in the process of configuring my blog's assets to be loaded from their CDN because I think it is important for my blog to load in under 500ms :-)

GuiA 12y ago
True, but on Digital Ocean you still have to set up a bunch of things yourself (deploying Rails/Django etc. isn't just a matter of a git push like it is with Heroku, you have to worry about scheduling backups, etc.) that you get even on Heroku's free tier. Yes, I know these things are trivial, but even 30 minutes of work is infinitely more than Heroku's 0.
- bad_user 12y ago
  I totally agree for experiments, but for long-term stuff, like your website or anything else you want to stay up, once you configure it then it stays configured - it's actually not 30 minutes, more like several hours the first time you do it, but after that you don't have to touch it again for months. The only thing that has to happen periodically are security updates, but you can configure it to update itself, you then configure Pingdom to send you alerts in case the server is down, then you're worry free. Granted, Heroku's ease of use is totally kick-ass.
- BHSPitMonkey 12y ago
  You could try using Dokku: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-dokku-one-click-digitalocean-image-to-run-a-node-js-app https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
  - josegonzalez 12y ago
    You could, but the maintainer - progrium - isn't maintaining the repo these days. There are ~47 PRs in the queue - some quite old - and he is actively working on Flynn.
    - jimmcslim 12y ago
      He doesn't have much to do with Flynn either these days... http://progrium.com/blog/2014/07/01/beyond-flynn-or-flynn-as-a-worldview/ http://progrium.com/blog/2014/07/01/beyond-flynn-or-flynn-as...

GuiA 12y ago

True, but on Digital Ocean you still have to set up a bunch of things yourself (deploying Rails/Django etc. isn't just a matter of a git push like it is with Heroku, you have to worry about scheduling backups, etc.) that you get even on Heroku's free tier. Yes, I know these things are trivial, but even 30 minutes of work is infinitely more than Heroku's 0.

bad_user 12y ago
I totally agree for experiments, but for long-term stuff, like your website or anything else you want to stay up, once you configure it then it stays configured - it's actually not 30 minutes, more like several hours the first time you do it, but after that you don't have to touch it again for months. The only thing that has to happen periodically are security updates, but you can configure it to update itself, you then configure Pingdom to send you alerts in case the server is down, then you're worry free. Granted, Heroku's ease of use is totally kick-ass.
BHSPitMonkey 12y ago
You could try using Dokku: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-dokku-one-click-digitalocean-image-to-run-a-node-js-app https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
- josegonzalez 12y ago
  You could, but the maintainer - progrium - isn't maintaining the repo these days. There are ~47 PRs in the queue - some quite old - and he is actively working on Flynn.
  - jimmcslim 12y ago
    He doesn't have much to do with Flynn either these days... http://progrium.com/blog/2014/07/01/beyond-flynn-or-flynn-as-a-worldview/ http://progrium.com/blog/2014/07/01/beyond-flynn-or-flynn-as...