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I really didn't need much it turns out. Most things were old experiments, testing, fun that I let die.
I really just salvaged an old personal page of mine. Setup was super fast, tied to github, very nice features. It's not heroku by any means, but it works for what it is and I really enjoy the simplicity of the setup.
1. It took about 1 week due to lack of render documentation for Docker and buildpacks. I posted on the render help forum and contacted their support which did respond but were not the most helpful. I ended up finding a single example buildpack file in a render blog post which shed light on how to structure their build system. If I had not found it I dont think I would have been able to get it to work.
2. I don’t have experience with 3rd party deployment frameworks.
3. Learned how to use Docker in order to utilize Renders blueprint feature which would automatically link a redis instance to my hosted app.
4. $0 to $0
Render has a similar interface to Heroku but some missing features and bugs a few of which I’ve found are: No newline/special character support in environment variables. Applications cannot get the public hostname from calling the standard call in the programming language’s library like hostname(). Unlike Heroku where a publicaly reachable host is return, render returns an internal hostname is returned instead.
I went with render.com (no affiliation). Found them fairly easy to use, really excellent support.
The real benefit is not having to worry about upgrading stacks at EOF and that stuff.
Coherence configures managed services in your own cloud such as Cloud Run in GCP or Fargate/ECS in AWS, while adding in all the missing pieces these providers don't include out of the box, such as load balancer/SSL/DNS configuration, database/redis orchestration, CI/CD integration, Cloud IDEs for development, VPC/networking best practices, long-running workers and cron tasks - all with one simple configuration.
Coherence itself has a free tier that fits most projects, but you will need to use credits or pay for you usage of your cloud resources. We'd love feedback and are happy to answer any questions, feel free to ping hn@withcoherence.com!
2. I'm a pretty knowledgeable DevOps guy.
3. Not really valuable but gives me a bit of Linux experience.
4. Flat instance pricing, was able to get all of my stuff into a $5 instance... however I have been increasing it as I get projects from friends and myself in these.
5. Supports almost everything, it just runs your stuff inside a docker container.
6. I liked Heroku, it's where I started with Rails but it gets ridiculously expensive quickly... there's no reason adding a DB should cost $40.
- No salt/puppet/ansible, no docker, kubernete, etc. Only standart linux stuff.
- All done with makefiles/ssh/git - Send email with Mailgun
I try to keep the dependencies as small as possible: external services, programs, libraries.
One server can serve an incredible amount of requests if you only do normal web stuff.
Login with ssh to get stats with top. Huge performance, snappy, no concern with cost.
You could do the same with a vpn
It took me quite a bit of time, and it’s not perfect. I need to set up a vpn image as a fall over if the hardware break (low probability)
Seems like a similar idea, you give them a Dockerfile and they deploy it somewhere at `$PORT`, and then you listen on that port.
I moved to CapRover, and shortly after ended up moving to Portainer, mostly because CapRover does not have very good collaborative environment (eg. A single password for access) With 20Eur a month and a VPS on Digital Ocean you can get quite far. I also made a small project to spin up a PaaS like environment with docker swarm, Portainer and Traefik if you're interested: https://github.com/sergioisidoro/honey-swarm
If you want better bank for the buck VPS, checkout Hetzner. Or oracle's free tier.
Yes Hetzner is cheap, but I'm scarred from that event.
Controversial opinion: given the vast majority of answers here: cheapskates looking for free tiers wherever they can find them. Heroku should’ve closed that free tier years ago! Now they added some very very cheap plans as well which is fantastic for them = gets rid of some of the horrendous cost from platform abuse they dealt with every quarter. Good for you Heroku, you were always under appreciated by the enterpris…
> Now they added some very very cheap plans as well which is fantastic for them Can you share a link to their new plans? The pricing listed on their old page ( https://www.heroku.com/pricing ) still showing $7/mo as their cheapest option and it's already an overkill for my applications. In comparison, the cheapest option on fly.io is $1.94/mo ( https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ ). Note: I know $7 is the maximum cost…