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(I develop a pretty small-scale app for a non-profit)
So, no, not yet. But I am worried I may regret it.
3 years ago, I tried Heroku and was quite impressed by it. Although the price is prohibitive for a hobby project that needed resources but wasn't generating any revenue, I had to start seeking other options. Ended up developing my own Heroku but focused on Django deployments. Three years later, it works like a charm and has many happy folks who thank me for making it. Meet Appliku: https://appliku.com
Having had to use the point in time restore feature before, it's indispensable.
Just taken a look at Appliku as others have mentioned it (we are a Django app), that on DigitalOcean with their managed Postgres could be a strong option.
I use Heroku at work, and DigitalOcean for my personal stuff, and I can tell you that Heroku’s DX has fallen behind.
Yes. No new projects there (using Fly.io instead as it provides a similar, simple DX but even better and cheaper too unless you are heavily Elements dependent) but am being somewhat slow to actually move things off.. The stack deprecations will probably push me to do it before long though.
3 years ago, I tried Heroku and was quite impressed by it. Although the price is prohibitive for a hobby project that needed resources but wasn't generating any revenue, I had to start seeking other options. Ended up developing my own Heroku but focused on Django deployments. Three years later, it works like a charm and has many happy folks who thank me for making it. Meet Appliku: https://appliku.com
My main issue is the free redis and cheap postgres instances they provide for my low-traffic app.
To be clear though, these are very small/cheap projects between friends so I haven't needed to evaluate costs (beyond a few bucks a month) and I don't have any complex requirements beyond avoiding docker as much as possible.