If anything, this article solidified for me that the main reason remains cost only. Points (3) and (4) are probably not among the most important things for the vast majority of co's, even if they have 10s or 100s of employees.
Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
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Re: Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
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I'm trying to switch from Heroku to Render but it is awfully slow compared to Heroku, my Rails project takes something like 1 minute to start after it has been shut down gratefully. Moreover, it breaks the CSS assets and uses the older assets instead of the latest ones. I do not why, it is a really small project and I have none of these issue on Heroku
Sorry about that. It sounds like you're on the free plan which is somewhat underpowered vs Heroku right now. Still, definitely not the experience we hope to provide and I'd love to learn more. Email in profile.
Dumb question I couldn't quickly glean from the website, does Render integrate well with gitlab-ci?
Also while I have you, do you support deploying to Canadian regions?
Thanks!
Re: Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry about that. It sounds like you're on the free plan which is somewhat underpowered vs Heroku right now. Still, definitely not the experience we hope to provide and I'd love to learn more. Email in profile.
Dumb question I couldn't quickly glean from the website, does Render integrate well with gitlab-ci? Also while I have you, do you support deploying to Canadian regions? Thanks!
Render integrates with Gitlab repos, and you can use deploy hooks from any CI provider (including gitlab-ci): https://render.com/docs/deploy-hooks
We don't have a Canadian region yet, but we'll get there!
Re: Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
#164https://cloud66.com is the best alternative that runs on your own cloud and is native for Rails apps
Re: Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
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RDS runs pretty well! It's just irritating to use. The good DBaaS give me a lot more power. This is true for Heroku PG, PlanetScale, Supabase, and Crunchy Data. Some of them let me fork a DB to run a PR against, some give me app level features that save me code, etc. Most modern hosted DBs also let you run your own replicas. I'm not really complaining about how well RDS works when your app is connected to it and it d…
What do you mean? RDS lets you run replicas
RDS will manage replicas for you. But you can't run your own non-rds replicas.
Re: Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
#166Alternatives to Heroku besides Porter?
https://www.cloud66.com/ if you want support for all major cloud providers including bare metal ones, native support for MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Elastic, memcachD and tons of features for your entire team
Disclaimer: founder here
Re: Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
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> we haven't been able to deploy for over two weeks What is stopping you? Are you unable to type `git push heroku master`?
Heroku's github integration has been down for 2 weeks
That doesn’t concern me as much as how our github access keys got accessed/leaked which Heroku has yet to answer.
Re: Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
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Agreed - not least recruiting Matz which I thought was a huge coup
At the time we would joke a bit that acquisitions would get some new very high priced domain. We even looked at getting the .app TLD for all Heroku apps to get their own .app domain. We ended up with our acquisition "gift" as Matz, which was great to see it support Ruby and the community given how Heroku couldn't have become Heroku without the Ruby and Rails community.
When you hire a celebrity programmer like that, what exactly do they end up doing?
Do they actually have responsibilities in their role or is it more just to slap the branding on to them while they continue to do their own thing, whatever it may be? (in Matz case I would think he has more than enough full time work on Ruby itself)
Re: Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
#169A good article, except for one big thing: this is not an end user, rather a direct competitor. Public articles that criticize competitors always run me the wrong way. I haven't used Heroku in a few years, but it has served (using the Hobby plan) as a really low cost way to host web apps. I have been reading through the comments on alternative providers, and even though I haven't used it, GCP's Cloud Deploy looks inte…
Render.com is pretty great and they recently introduced free plans for Hobby usage.
Supports web services, static sites and Postgres/Redis.
Re: Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
#170Warning: There are a couple people in this thread mentioning products that they're investors in. I won't call them out expressly, but I think people should be direct about their incentive alignments. It's disingenuous and borders on astroturfing IMO. Background: Founder of Railway.app here. There's a lot of these companies popping up that offer a "Heroku replacement", and once you dive in, you realize you have to pay…
Railway looks really cool but what is the procedure if you want more than one of the same data store in my case one redis for cache and a second redis for aggregating usage metrics?
Edit: I found a small bug, I can't link my discord and railway.app accounts because my github is < 180 days old, it says that I must enter billing information but I did that a couple hours ago. There's no way to post this message in discord since private messages to your team members get rejected and public messages require that linkage.