Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?

Post by pas » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 7:57 AM UTC

TrackerFF wrote: post #238

holografix wrote: post #119

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…

I'm gonna play the devils advocate here $5-$10 / month is peanuts for most western people. In other places of the world, that could be equivalent to a solid 10%-20% of their monthly paycheck (if the hosting services do not offer prices based on location).

Interesting claim/model. Can someone cite some real data or at least give an anecdote about this?

Are there IT workers who earn ~100 USD a month? (Okay, thinking about it there must be. Freelancers who are not really experienced, or working in very local very low productivity companies.)

Aren't there already small hosting providers regionally who price accordingly? (We tried to run one here in Hungary around 2009-2010, but there was no point. Free stuff provided by giant companies is a much better value, so the local market is composed of otherwise non-typical clients who actually want local hosting with something extra, all in all not a great business. Prices are very low, competition is fierce, etc.)

Post by archeroe » Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #52

zapt02 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's funny how people are different, after using CapRover for years I tried Coolify but it felt like so much functionality was missing that I would not use it over CapRover in its current state. All the things you mentioned (GitHub webhooks, custom domains, SSL certs, reverse proxying) are supported by Cap. It also supports Docker Swarm.

When I looked at CapRover recently, the GitHub integration in the docs required manually setting up a GitHub Actions integration and I couldn't exactly figure out what parts I needed to change since the example was for a NodeJS app, and I'm assuming it needed to be added or changed for each repo you want to track git pushes from. In contrast, with Coolify, you simply login with your GitHub account and it installs a (…

Why would someone care about the look of a GUI dashboard for a PAAS and somehow base his choice on that ? Bootstrap, MUI, made by a designer, why should I care when there are dozens of more important points ?

And UX wise both have done a pretty good job at being plenty sufficient.

Re: Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?

Re: Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?