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

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Post by sleepyhead » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 3:20 PM UTC

didgeoridoo wrote: post #285

sleepyhead wrote: post #180

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The new "cheap" plan is only two dollars less so I don't think it is an alternative for many. I will most likely move infrequently used apps to another platform.

The new “eco” dynos work the same way as free do today — they draw down a shared pool of hours across multiple apps. So you could run tens (or hundreds) of infrequently used apps for a total of $5/month. That’s in contrast to the originally-announced plan, which had Hobby as the lowest cost option which costs $7 per dyno per month, which can get expensive with lots of rarely-used apps.

Ah I missed the "shared across all of your eco dynos" part. Thanks for the info. That helps. I also like the new small Redis plan.

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

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Post by conradfr » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 3:59 PM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #298

conradfr wrote: post #202

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I would maybe do all that if it was for more than side-projects that can tolerate 5-10 seconds of downtime when deployed :)

That's fine, I wouldn't tell you otherwise. You just complained about a missing feature that isn't actually missing if you use the service properly and treat servers like cattle.

Well yes, some containers only read the persistent data so if those could have zero-downtime as there's no risk of data corruption it would be great, but that option is not offered to me.

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

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Post by 0xpotato » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 6:43 PM UTC

xu3u32 wrote: post #242

0xpotato wrote: post #194

Used to run all my bots (less than 5, doing each 30min - 1hr of computation daily) in Heroku using the free dynos, now moved them all to a Raspberry Pi I had from years ago that I dusted off for this.

What do the bots do?

An example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33099089

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

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Post by decidertm » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 6:53 PM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #288

decidertm wrote: post #127

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Northflank co-founder here. Addon disk pricing is the same as our volume pricing for services. The disks are SSDs. We've added a margin on-top of GCP, EC2 and Azure SSD pricing so I wouldn't say they are expensive in comparison to other providers. It's possible to configure HDD storage which is much cheaper, would be happy to enable that feature flag for you. SSD $0.30 per GB, HDD $0.15 per GB. We'll add HDD pricing…

Hi I looked at the pricing page and cannot see managed postgres is that an option or would I install it myself on an nf-compute-N?

Managed Postgres is a feature and we install it for you on your selected resource plan, replica count, version, storage and other options.

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

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Post by phendrenad2 » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 7:26 PM UTC

I didn't, I actually moved more things into Heroku because it wasn't worth the effort to maintain the platforms myself.

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

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Post by willnz » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 9:30 PM UTC

andrasbacsai wrote: post #190

pdntspa wrote: post #186

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No Rails support? :(

Not “natively”, but as lots of people asking, I will add it soon. Try to fit in this week! :)

Sounds great!

I feel like Ruby on Rails out of the box support would really help bring an influx of Heroku orphans.

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

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Post by movedx » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 4:20 AM UTC

sleepyhead wrote: post #300

movedx wrote: post #279

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Can you share the gory details so we can learn more about this? It would be interesting to study what happened, in detail. Perhaps there was a misconfiguration?

I made a video about it but it is not published yet. I hope to publish it soon here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkc8xf5A7qCQydN6tG0BmmQ There was no misconfiguration, just millions of DNS requests but not millions of actual users. I was in contact with AWS support multiple times. The only solution was so use AWS Shield Advanced. They did refund most of the charges but it was too risky for me. Even after I moved…

Yeah, the problem is, dnsimple.com isn't going to NOT charge you for the same thing. They have T&Cs too.

I'm guessing AWS refunded close to 100% of fees associated with provable bad DNS requests.

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

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Post by justjake » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 5:08 AM UTC

rurban wrote: post #117

Tried railway (unstable), boyab (unable to setup) and settled with fly.io (easy to setup, stable). all free tiers, even with a free custom domain.

Railway founder here

Can you mention what particularly was unstable?

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

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Post by jeppester » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 7:56 AM UTC

olieidel wrote: post #103

Throwing Scalingo [1] in here because I feel they get way less exposure than they deserve. We [2] offer a SaaS for medical device companies. GDPR compliance made us look for a EU-based company, and the recent Heroku situations (disappearing free tier and GitHub OAuth fiasco) made us switch to Scalingo. Scalingo is based in France. Their PaaS is rock-solid. The UI sometimes looks less polished but that shouldn't detra…

Thank you for this! We've been looking for an EU based heroku alternative for a while.

Thanks to a couple of people suggesting scalingo here on HN, I gave it a try last night and I'm very impressed with the offering. It took me less than an hour to get our rails template running - with no code changes at all.

The prices are comparable or lower than heroku, and unlike heroku your not forced into paying much more when your memory usage starts exceeding 512 mb.

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

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Post by jeppester » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 7:56 AM UTC

plopper823 wrote: post #3

Moved from Heroku to Scalingo 1) Took a few hours to have everything setup. Transition was easy 2) Not that much. I chose heroku because i hate doing sys admin stuff 3) Can't say for this one, scalingo is a PAAS 4) Scalingo will probably be more expensive for starter plans but as you grow it won't be like heroku's horrible pricing 5) Mostly app with no traffic to be honest

Thank you for this! We've been looking for an EU based heroku alternative for a while.

Thanks to a couple of people suggesting scalingo here on HN, I gave it a try last night and I'm very impressed with the offering. It took me less than an hour to get our rails template running - with no code changes at all.

The prices are comparable or lower than heroku, and unlike heroku your not forced into paying much more when your memory usage starts exceeding 512 mb.