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We built a Heroku alternative made for developers with fair pricing

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Re: We built a Heroku alternative made for developers with fair pricing

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I don't think Heroku's pricing is unfair, anyway it's not my place to say it even if I think it :) I'm just saying we made the product as developers and with developers in mind in general but specifically when it comes to pricing. I'm convinced that we can offer a great alternative to Heroku, at a lower cost, without sacrificing what's really matter : network and infrastructure quality, backups, DDos protection etc.

Thanks for the reply. I make some faint, intermittent forays into that space (I'm a developer but not that kind of developer). I'll keep it in mind for my next project. Good luck!

We'll be honored to have you :) Thanks!

Re: We built a Heroku alternative made for developers with fair pricing

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Seems like misbehavior by one of FlashDrive's tenants can degrade experience for other tenants:

> FlashDrive’s containers can be used to send emails but the architecture of FlashDrive uses a single IP address by datacenter to provide ultra high redundancy. Since this IP is advertised by any container using FlashDrive inside the same datacenter it’s highly possible that this IP will be blacklisted pretty quickly by any major email provider. For that reason we don’t recommend the use of FlashDrive’s architecture to send emails.

https://devcenter.flashdrive.io/can-i-send-emails-with-flash...

> We are working on a solution to associate a dedicated static IP to an app for a little additional monthly fee and we will release this solution shortly.

https://devcenter.flashdrive.io/why-is-my-apps-ip-blocked-by...

Are there other aspects of the architecture where tenants are not isolated from each other?

Re: We built a Heroku alternative made for developers with fair pricing

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Seems like misbehavior by one of FlashDrive's tenants can degrade experience for other tenants: > FlashDrive’s containers can be used to send emails but the architecture of FlashDrive uses a single IP address by datacenter to provide ultra high redundancy. Since this IP is advertised by any container using FlashDrive inside the same datacenter it’s highly possible that this IP will be blacklisted pretty quickly by an…

Hi! All tenants are completely isolated from each others but FlashDrive is a load balanced service so the IP is advertised is the one of the cluster you are in. Note that we recently switched to a segmentation inside a datacenter to mitigate that issue and tenants are placed randomly inside clusters located in a datacenter (with a different IP address by cluster).

Re: We built a Heroku alternative made for developers with fair pricing

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The product looks very promising as someone who has been hosting flask projects on heroku I think its totally worth trying flashdrive and the pricing is just perfect in my opinion.

I'm just curious lets say you host a small service and pay $3/per month what if the usage of the app increases does that mean I'll be charged more than $3 dollars if I am on the dev plan

Re: We built a Heroku alternative made for developers with fair pricing

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The product looks very promising as someone who has been hosting flask projects on heroku I think its totally worth trying flashdrive and the pricing is just perfect in my opinion. I'm just curious lets say you host a small service and pay $3/per month what if the usage of the app increases does that mean I'll be charged more than $3 dollars if I am on the dev plan

Hi! Thanks for your interest in FlashDrive! The plan only limits RAM and CPU allocations. If your app uses more than 90% of resources you will receive an email and at 100% the app may crash but reboot automatically thanks to our auto-heal function. Next week we will deploy auto scalling that will let you decide if you want your app to upgrade it's size automatically depending on usage. In any case you are never charged for more that you decide.

Re: We built a Heroku alternative made for developers with fair pricing

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The product looks very promising as someone who has been hosting flask projects on heroku I think its totally worth trying flashdrive and the pricing is just perfect in my opinion. I'm just curious lets say you host a small service and pay $3/per month what if the usage of the app increases does that mean I'll be charged more than $3 dollars if I am on the dev plan

Hi! Thanks for your interest in FlashDrive! The plan only limits RAM and CPU allocations. If your app uses more than 90% of resources you will receive an email and at 100% the app may crash but reboot automatically thanks to our auto-heal function. Next week we will deploy auto scalling that will let you decide if you want your app to upgrade it's size automatically depending on usage. In any case you are never charg…

Hey man thanks for replying getting over charged without knowing is my biggest fear this is why I’m hesitant when it comes to deploying services on hosting platforms but you cleared my thoughts and I’ll definitely try flashdrive for my future projects

Re: We built a Heroku alternative made for developers with fair pricing

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! Thanks for your interest in FlashDrive! The plan only limits RAM and CPU allocations. If your app uses more than 90% of resources you will receive an email and at 100% the app may crash but reboot automatically thanks to our auto-heal function. Next week we will deploy auto scalling that will let you decide if you want your app to upgrade it's size automatically depending on usage. In any case you are never charg…

Hey man thanks for replying getting over charged without knowing is my biggest fear this is why I’m hesitant when it comes to deploying services on hosting platforms but you cleared my thoughts and I’ll definitely try flashdrive for my future projects

I know, being over charged is one of the main pain point with cloud services, that's why we made FlashDrive differently and with all services included (load balancer, DDoS protection, SSL certificates, daily backups)! We'll be glad to have you :)
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