Related: I wrote about Heroku a few months ago and there was some good disucssion[1] here.
Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#323 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.
redis and postgres sounds like you could just use render
Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#33Those 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
Neat, but "my own servers" is not what I think of as the "heroku lifestyle" at all!
Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#34I‘m on DigitalOcean App Platform and pretty happy with it. They keep getting better.
Very easy to use and cheaper than heroku.
Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#35I had a small project hosted in Heroku. After the whole debacle with security I wanted to get ahead of any more potential disruptions and migrated over to AWS EC2 + RDS + Dokku. Being my first time with AWS, I thought it was more straightforward than I thought. RDS seemed like a nice early optimization too (and also mimics how Heroku handles Databases normally by having a separate server for them off the get-go).
Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#36This seems like it would make a good poll. Could you convert it? My answer is the same as someone else before, and I'd love to get some numbers back on this.
Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#37Those 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
Have you by any chance tried Dokku? How does it compare with Piku?
Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#38I‘m on DigitalOcean App Platform and pretty happy with it. They keep getting better. Very easy to use and cheaper than heroku.
Seconded, I'm on DigitalOcean App Platform, with further plans to self-manage it more either on individual droplets or a RKE2 cluster built on droplets, but I keep on kicking the can down the road because I don't need any more complexity
Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#39> Are you migrating away from Heroku? If so, which cloud provider are you using (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc)? What's your stack and what service are you migrating to (ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, etc)?
I see only two real Heroku competitors: Render and Fly.io.
It seems that Render is currently better at developer experience, and Fly.io – at geographical availability.
Re: Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?
#40Short answer: no. Every year I try out new things (fly, render), but stick with heroku because I'd rather focus on building products and not devops. I'm a solo dev making $700k a year on my projects. I'm happy to pay the extra cost for things to just work. If there is a catastrophic issue though, I do have backups elsewhere that I will use.
Are the things you feel are missing from fly/render, or is it just a case of it not being worth switching an already set up project?