Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

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Post by frading » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:30 PM UTC

I moved to https://render.com, and it works pretty well so far

Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

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Post by petercooper » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:30 PM UTC

mr90210 wrote: post #17

petercooper wrote: post #12

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.

Are you Peter Cooper from CooperPress?

Yes.

Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

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Post by throwaway1777 » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:33 PM UTC

Lots of astroturfing in this thread. Suggest everyone do their own research before making any moves.

Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

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Post by rcarmo » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:34 PM UTC

Those of you interested in the Heroku lifestyle and willing to have a quick and painless deployment experience (for simple apps) are welcome to try out Piku, a tiny Heroku-inspired PaaS for your own servers:

https://github.com/piku/piku

Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

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Post by CSMastermind » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:34 PM UTC

Yes. I will be moving my company off of Heroku. The DNS issue yesterday increased the importance of this in my mind.

We'll probably end up going with AWS though I might take a serious look at Azure.

Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

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Post by ceejaytkachenko » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:36 PM UTC

I gravitate towards small indy vendors more. They're reliable and have better customer support than all these big players combined. My fav is Appliku. I cannot praise this app enough. It's just all that I need and now I don't have to break my head thinking which provider to choose

Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

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Post by mr90210 » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:36 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #22

mr90210 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Well, thank you for your work and dedication.

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Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

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Post by nkotov » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:36 PM UTC

This thread will be filled with a ton of alternatives suggesting a "heroku-like experience" on top of some other cloud provider. My honest opinion, don't waste your time with these "shortcuts". Just use the cloud providers directly.

Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

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Post by major505 » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:38 PM UTC

I been using Heroku for simple apps for a long time, but recently I started moving them to Azure. Nowdays all my projects contains a Dockerfile so there's no reason to stuck with only one server option.

Azure was kind of a pain to configure the first time, but after I got it all running, I have no trouble moving my projects to there.

Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

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Post by bombcar » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:38 PM UTC

zbettenbuk wrote: post #19

All these "big clouds" are a risk when it comes to global outages. Heroku, Cloudflare, AWS... etc. Using indy or smaller developer focussed clouds can mitigate this problem, but those come with other risks for sure. I think every tech decision makers (CTOs, architects, lead engineers...) need to know at least some of these tools and give them a try to keep a list of plan-Bs at hand.

In general for business-class stuff, you're better off going with the biggest names (AWS, Cloudflare) and trying to have your own backups for when those fail.

That way, if the backup works, yay (maybe even covers you shotgunning your own foot now and then), if it fails, eh, everyone is offline because AWS is down so the blame game won't be that harsh.