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I feel the same. I love the ease of Heroku but the premium cost is high. Given the fierce price competition among VPS providers like digitalocean, I've always
by jonahx 12y ago
I feel the same. I love the ease of Heroku but the premium cost is high. Given the fierce price competition among VPS providers like digitalocean, I've always wondered why there are no cheaper alternatives to heroku. Is their infrastructure just that hard to duplicate?
- Igglyboo 12y agoFor what I'm using digitalocean for, it is only $5ish dollars a month more than heroku but infinitely easier to use as it's an actual linux box I have free reign over. I understand I'm not going to make either of them a lot of money but I can't imagine wanting to save money and deal with heroku when a VPS is so cheap now a days.
- adamnemecek 12y agoSo how much money do you lose if your server goes down? The grandparent comment is saying that Heroku is more expensive than VPS, not vice versa.
- ilaksh 12y agoDokku has most of the key features of Heroku for free and even deploys the same buildpacks.
- bryanwbh 12y agoCheck out Openshift (https://www.openshift.com https://www.openshift.com), I am currently using the free tier to host static blogs and static sites; quite frankly, it's not bad
- techdragon 12y agoBecause building one is non trivial. It deters competitors from attempting it.