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Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?
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Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?
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> giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. FWIW you can do: heroku run bash Which let's you mess around on a new dyno (not an existing one).
Didn't know about this. What's the difference between a new dyno and an existing one? Why would they act differently?
They don't act differently, its just a dyno separate from the web and other processes.
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?
#33I am having a similar problem with heroku at this current point in time as I have been made aware that they do not provide access to web sockets which is definitely the direction I am wanting to go with my startup. Do any of these solutions cater for web sockets?
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I have never heard of this service, but looking at their pricing page, they seem to have made it as obscure as possible.
> I have never heard of this service Maybe because it's French eheh. We don't have the same politics to go global! For their pricing page, you buy Drops, which is like fuel for your car. They offer a better documentation here: http://doc.clever-cloud.com/pricing/ It will go from $600 (classical apps) to $2400 (huge apps) a year. They designed their offer to be cheaper than AWS with same or better performances.
I'm running an ecommerce website on clever-cloud (sales revenue: €1.5M/y). It works perfectly.
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#35I'd definitely recommend http://clever-cloud.com/ It scales automaticaly, analyzing the resource you need on your server, and you only pay what you use, like electricity. It supports actually PHP, Scala, Ruby, Java, Node JS, and it's still upgrading. Also they have deployed PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchBase and they are working on MongoDB integration, and ElasticSearch as well. This company is pretty young, so they have a…
I have never heard of this service, but looking at their pricing page, they seem to have made it as obscure as possible.
I'm project manager at Clever Cloud. And I couldn't agree more. We've decided to blow up this obscure page in the next 3 weeks for a cool pricing simulator. Stay tuned ;]
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have never heard of this service, but looking at their pricing page, they seem to have made it as obscure as possible.
I'm project manager at Clever Cloud. And I couldn't agree more. We've decided to blow up this obscure page in the next 3 weeks for a cool pricing simulator. Stay tuned ;]
Awesome! The service looks pretty cool. I managed to figure out my rough costs, but it took a calculator. All it would need is just a calculator on that page as you say :-)
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?
#37I'd definitely recommend http://clever-cloud.com/ It scales automaticaly, analyzing the resource you need on your server, and you only pay what you use, like electricity. It supports actually PHP, Scala, Ruby, Java, Node JS, and it's still upgrading. Also they have deployed PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchBase and they are working on MongoDB integration, and ElasticSearch as well. This company is pretty young, so they have a…
I have never heard of this service, but looking at their pricing page, they seem to have made it as obscure as possible.
Since they offer free drops at the account creation, I usually just make the app run for a few hours, load test it and check its consumption.
measuring is always better than estimating :)
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?
#38I lovvvvvvvvvve Appfog.
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?
#39The one hosting I'd recommend is of course Shelly Cloud: https://shellycloud.com/ I'm a co-founder and I can tell you we have everything you asked for:
- Super easy deployment. Just as in Heroku you just do a git push and we take care of the rest. We also offer integrated setup for databases and file storage, so deployment of Ruby applications is even more streamlined than on Heroku.
- Super easy maintenance. We take care of monitoring, and broken processes and machines are replaced automatically. You also get logs and backups for free.
- Great support. We're Ruby programmers ourselves and we're easily approachable. Even if you're not our client feel free to visit our Campfire room at http://support.shellycloud.com/ . We help with deployment to our platform and day to day usage problems for free.
- Highly reliable architecture. We offer components (like mongo replica sets) that allow you to create applications with very high uptime.
- Great performance. In our model you get something comparable to an EC2 instance, so even our "small" server gets you much more power (and RAM space) than a Heroku dyno.
I hope that this at least piqued your interest. Feel free to ask questions, I'd be glad to answer them.
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#40While on the topic, does anybody know any Heroku alternative that offers postgis, preferably at a more reasonable price than the 200$/month Heroku charge.