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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 He
by 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 agoI 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 agoYou 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 agoYou 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 agoHe 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...