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Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
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Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
#62I have never quite understood this value proposition (maybe I am not the target audience?) The point of PaaS is to avoid DevOps... making a PasS with an eject just feels orthogonal to the value prop of the main business. Ejecting seems like a low probability event as they CHOSE PaaS in the first place. (unless the money got really high) We included Porter in our post-Heroku research and chose Render. We have loved Re…
> maybe I am not the target audience
There’s a point in which the hosted PaaS is too expensive.
And what will you do when there are millions to be saved?
Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love GCP (did a migration to it at my last place), but I think like all cloud providers, it's a lot more "some assembly required" than Porter looks like, or like Heroku used to be back in the day. To my knowledge GCP doesn't have a git-push deployment. Cloud Run might be the closest thing if you do a Docker push, but that is just one part, then you need a database, still need CI/CD, etc. It's close. And while I lik…
> To my knowledge GCP doesn't have a git-push deployment. https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/deploy-clo... It also has the ability to deploy cloud functions directly from github actions, which is super easy to set up and works really well... https://github.com/google-github-actions/deploy-cloud-functi... > I probably wouldn't bother and would jump straight to GCP This is exactly my point. Just do that.
Pretty hilarious that link you posted has a big red banner announcing product EOS but yeah just use proprietary GCP APIs why don't ya
Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
> To my knowledge GCP doesn't have a git-push deployment. https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/deploy-clo... It also has the ability to deploy cloud functions directly from github actions, which is super easy to set up and works really well... https://github.com/google-github-actions/deploy-cloud-functi... > I probably wouldn't bother and would jump straight to GCP This is exactly my point. Just do that.
Pretty hilarious that link you posted has a big red banner announcing product EOS but yeah just use proprietary GCP APIs why don't ya
Good catch! Yea, I responded quickly and didn't note that that was Googles private repo thingy that they EOS'd.
Just use the second link. Works fine with github.
Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
#65Speaking of not wanting to get locked in. I work for Heroku and we are previewing an open source buildpack that produces docker images here’s a tutorial
https://www.schneems.com/2024/05/01/build-a-ruby-on-rails-ap...
Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're just like the dropbox launch just use ftp guy
That's definitely not the same situation. Porter's advantage would be pricing but GCP, AWS and Azure give away thousands of USD for startups to start so it's even cheaper than Porter to start.
Not everyone gets those credits. If you’re not vc-backed or ai it used to be harder to get decent credits. Also the credits expire after 1-2 years and then what?
Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
#67How does this compare to Coolify/CapRover
i think Coolify doesn't have a built in ejection button?
Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
#68We migrated from Heroku to Porter at work (at my behest). Still one of the better bets I’ve taken. There is definitely still some more devops overhead compared to Heroku, and I wish the product was a bit more mature. But even at ~$18k/mo on Heroku spend we’re now spending less than half with Porter. Other than myself and the other engineer who were responsible for the migration, the rest of the team really got to kee…
Great to hear that! > I’ll work with them again if I ever scale past a $10k/mo Heroku bill (post enterprise contract) with another team. We built Porter Cloud so you can just start on us from day 1 and migrate to the Porter you're used to when you're ready, without spending much effort on the migration :)
Excited to try it out for future projects!
Admittedly, my eyes are on pricing here. Couldn’t find anything yet.
Congrats on the launch.
Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
#69We migrated from Heroku to Porter at work (at my behest). Still one of the better bets I’ve taken. There is definitely still some more devops overhead compared to Heroku, and I wish the product was a bit more mature. But even at ~$18k/mo on Heroku spend we’re now spending less than half with Porter. Other than myself and the other engineer who were responsible for the migration, the rest of the team really got to kee…
> the Porter team made the migration surprisingly easy all things considered
As the second engineer who worked on this migration I'd like to add on to this — the Porter team went above and beyond for us on this process and made it so easy for us.
At first I was wary of all the moving parts we'd have to manage but they took care of a lot of complex things for us and let us have our site running over on Porter very quickly. Even at our not sky-high Heroku spend, the ~3 engineer-months we spent on this are probably paid back by now. Can't recommend them enough.
Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button
#70I don't understand the developer's pricing (new offering) which is as below:
$10 per month GB RAM
$20 per month vCPU
As compared to standard pricing which is:
$6 per month GB RAM
$13 per month vCPU
Isn't the developer pricing for small project expected to be less than standard? If its costly than standard pricing then what is the benefit of developers pricing?