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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 movedx »

Dave3of5 wrote: post #56
movedx wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're saying that if someone buys access to a kitchen, doesn't learn to cook or operate it safely, burns the place down trying to serve 100,000 people, they'll get a big insurance claim made against them and have a $150k bill? You're kidding me? Are you telling me people have to learn to USE these tools if they don't want a nasty surprise? :-P (I'm being tongue-in-cheek cheeky here.) I know you're mostly pushing…

Eek what a hot take. He's talking about the pricing model not the way to operate it. AWS bills for egress data. You can't operate it in any different way to stop that.

Sure about that? So if I have static images going through an ALB to the requesting client, I can't operate in another way to reduce those costs? ... you're sure?

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

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Post by Joe8Bit »

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-…

I can second fly.io, I moved a bunch of personal (but "production") projects from Heroku to it recently (Node, Rust, Rails) and the experience has been great. I can also second their Heroku migrator, worked pretty flawlessly.

Overall, my pricing has been about the same or 5-10% less per month.

It doesn't have the same "Click this button to add this third-party service to your dynos, with billing included" eco-system that Heroku has (had?) but my Heroku usage was pretty vanilla so it wasn't an issue for me.

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

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Post by xeoneux »

I got a VPS off Contabo and started using docker compose for deployments. Learning it all took me a day (I had been using docker but compose was new) and the implementation took me one more day. Mainly setting up GH workflow for automated deploys. There's just so much freedom now! Cost wise, I am down from about $24 to $8 with a much better performance. I can finally have a server near to the users and not be restricted to just US or Europe.

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

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Post by lagrange77 »

andrasbacsai wrote: post #70

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 mad…

Looks really ...cool. When you say Netlify alternative, you're referring to commit-to-deploy functionality of static files only, not a global CDN and serverless functions, right?

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

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Post by proton_9 »

charlieegan3 wrote: post #46

I have moved a Rails and Go app to https://northflank.com . I have my Rails app running in their free project (limited to two services and 2 jobs) and my Go app in a paid project. I find the pricing to be very reasonable and considerably cheaper than Heroku. I was looking for somewhere I could run web services and cron jobs both in the same place. They have a Heroku importer, however I think you need to ask to have i…

thanks for this mate, was looking for a free tier paas to show off some proof of concept projects, northflank seems good.

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

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Post by andrasbacsai »

lagrange77 wrote: post #75
andrasbacsai wrote: post #70

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 mad…

Looks really ...cool. When you say Netlify alternative, you're referring to commit-to-deploy functionality of static files only, not a global CDN and serverless functions, right?

Yes, I mean that you can easily deploy static sites. It does not have global CDN and serverless functions (yet), but you can easily set a CDN (like bunny.net) in front of your sites and then it will be globally CDN'd. I'm using similar setup all my marketing sites. It is deployed by Coolify to a server and Bunny CDN will make it globally available. So I do not need to care about any traffic bumps (like I have at the moment) and all my commits are deployed automatically.

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

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Post by jamil7 »

evolve2k wrote: post #23

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

Every time I've tried to give render.com a proper go, I've run into some weird small issue. Ended up settling on fly.io and use that for everything now.

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

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Post by charlieegan3 »

proton_9 wrote: post #76
charlieegan3 wrote: post #46

I have moved a Rails and Go app to https://northflank.com . I have my Rails app running in their free project (limited to two services and 2 jobs) and my Go app in a paid project. I find the pricing to be very reasonable and considerably cheaper than Heroku. I was looking for somewhere I could run web services and cron jobs both in the same place. They have a Heroku importer, however I think you need to ask to have i…

thanks for this mate, was looking for a free tier paas to show off some proof of concept projects, northflank seems good.

Certainly the best option I've found for my needs. Good luck :)
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