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

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

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Post by satvikpendem »

harg wrote: post #58
satvikpendem wrote: post #29

I am using Coolify ( https://coolify.io ), an open source self-hosted PaaS which is a relatively newer kid on the block compared to Dokku and CapRover. I tried both of these and I just didn't like how they were, always had some problem or another. In contrast, Coolify has a great GUI that abstracts away the most common things about PaaS hosting, like connecting to GitHub automatically for git push deploys, SSL certif…

How come you compile your app on your deployment platform? I know Heroku does this, but wouldn't it be easier to compile your Rust app on a beefy CI server and then just ship a binary or container image to your deployment infra where you can size the server according to runtime load. E.g. I use Fly.io for one of my apps. I build a container image as part of CI on Github Actions and then just push that image to Fly as…

Yeah I could but it's another hassle to figure out where to build and store those container images as I believe neither GitHub container repository nor Docker Hub are free for private images. I'm also not sure whether Coolify has Docker image support, so I've just been building and deploying on my server. It also does zero downtime deployments and queues builds so it doesn't bother me if the builds take longer than strictly necessary, because I won't have downtime anyway.

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

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Post by o_m »

pftg wrote: post #11

I found great advice on Twitter https://twitter.com/pauld_fgc/status/1574107791651905536 by Paul P. API & Platform Results: Rails: @Railway wins. Render wakeup boot extremely slow (~1m). Flyio cannot run Rails for free. Crystal: @Render wins. 5-10s wakeup boot time. Railway & Fly keep growing memory infinitely. Node: @flydotio + Railway both win. Very slow boot on Render.

These are free plans though? Not a good comparison if you are a professional looking at this.

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

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Post by andrasbacsai »

zapt02 wrote: post #50
satvikpendem wrote: post #29

I am using Coolify ( https://coolify.io ), an open source self-hosted PaaS which is a relatively newer kid on the block compared to Dokku and CapRover. I tried both of these and I just didn't like how they were, always had some problem or another. In contrast, Coolify has a great GUI that abstracts away the most common things about PaaS hosting, like connecting to GitHub automatically for git push deploys, SSL certif…

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.

Hey, the founder of Coolify here. I'm constantly adding new features to Coolify.

Which ones are you missing (except Docker Swarm)?

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

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Post by andrasbacsai »

satvikpendem wrote: post #29

I am using Coolify ( https://coolify.io ), an open source self-hosted PaaS which is a relatively newer kid on the block compared to Dokku and CapRover. I tried both of these and I just didn't like how they were, always had some problem or another. In contrast, Coolify has a great GUI that abstracts away the most common things about PaaS hosting, like connecting to GitHub automatically for git push deploys, SSL certif…

Thank you for mentioning Coolify (founder here). :)

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

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Post by BigglesZX »

hankchinaski wrote: post #43

DigitalOcean. Databases are much cheaper. No big deal in moving as digital ocean app platform supports buildpacks

I've been waiting to make this same move but holding back because DOAP isn't quite as featureful yet, e.g. not supporting scheduled jobs, which for some reason ALL my Heroku-based projects use in some way.

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

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Post by shafyy »

evolve2k wrote: post #23

I went with render.com (no affiliation). Found them fairly easy to use, really excellent support.

Same here, also moved to Render and love their UX, UI and docs. Good customer support too (needed it to add VAT ID for my business, so nothing technical).

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

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Post by davidguetta »

heeton wrote: post #59

I have 4 apps running on fly.io for most of this year and can recommend them. 2 are elixir apps that have been created on fly, 1 was an elixir app I had running on heroku, and 1 was rails app on heroku I recently migrated. I used their heroku migrator and it worked pretty much automatically. I had a few steps to follow to move the DB, but their docs covered it - https://fly.io/docs/rails/getting-started/migrate-from-…

Price ?

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

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Post by davidguetta »

sgloutnikov wrote: post #9

I moved my small free Python/Django app to Fly.io and am extremely happy. The move was seamless because they allow you to run your app from a Dockerfile which was straight forward after going through the documentation. Looking forward to building more things on Fly.io.

Price ?

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

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Post by andrasbacsai »

Hey, Andras here, founder of Coolify (https://coolify.io). Coolify is an open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify alternative.

Lots of features are added day-by-day and I'm open for new ones. Visit our Github (https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify) or our feedback page (https://feedback.coolify.io/) to get more info.

A few months ago, I quit my job and started to work on it full-time (best decision I've made).

It is not VC funded (said no to 30+ investors - time will let me know if it was a good decision or not ), but funded by the awesome community! Why I'm mentioning this? Because I would like to focus on the functionalities, the community & the users and not the revenue and other boring metrics. I just would like to make a good software, enjoy the process and make people's life easier. I do not want to make millions of dollars from it. If me and my family could live happily, that is totally fine.

Let me know if you have an questions. I'm happy to answer them.

(Also I'm working on a cloud/managed hosting version of Coolify (https://beta.coolify.io/))

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