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Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
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Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#22All the free alternatives will eventually get rid of their free tier too - could be 1 year, could be 10 years. As the author stated, they had 25 free instances running. They converted over to paid, so maybe they became a profitable client. However, all the users who have 25+ instances and never pay over the course of 10 year isn't sustainable for a business.
Heroku still has a free tier which is comparable to Render, Fly.io and all the other alternatives people keep bringing up. The mythical "an unlimited number of sites & DBs hosted for free forever" option everyone is looking for simply doesn't exist.
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#23For less than heroku monthly price, you can have your own server in a cloud provider and spawn as much simple apps as you want!
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are plenty of reasons to dunk on Heroku from the last year. I’m not sure why asking customers to pay for hosting us one of them.
Many of these projects have no revenue and only exist because a free plan existed. Paying is a non starter so asking where that next free alternative is is a logical intermediary step before shutting it down and moving on to something else.
Why is paying a non starter? There’s a lot of hobbies in the world that require money. I can’t just barge into a climbing gym and say “I’m sorry this hobby will give me no revenue so I refuse to pay”
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#25Hetzner (or Digital Ocean) + Dokku is cheap & easy to run for small side projects.
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#26This looks like a serious agency, so I'm stuck on the question of why the free tier is so important to them versus simply paying for Heroku. Surely doing a mass migration to a new PaaS just to claim a small per-project savings is a dubious proposition given the inevitably of a future rug-pull from wherever you migrate.
On the other hand, if you're an individual with a bunch of small projects and you want to host them economically, then standard VPS hosting is going to give you a lot more bang for your buck.
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#27Pay?
It's bizarre that people's form of protest against Heroku is to threaten to move to a competitor that has even worse pricing tiers. You've had a free ride for a decade, being asked to cough up $7/mo now isn't the end of the world.
Agreed. I don’t understand all of the “Can’t believe I have to pay (X < $10) for $service”.
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#28Use Hatchbox. With Linode. I love it.
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#29All the free alternatives will eventually get rid of their free tier too - could be 1 year, could be 10 years. As the author stated, they had 25 free instances running. They converted over to paid, so maybe they became a profitable client. However, all the users who have 25+ instances and never pay over the course of 10 year isn't sustainable for a business.
It's been 12 years since Amazon announced their free tier, and it's still going strong.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/10/21/announ...
Re: Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?
#30This looks like a serious agency, so I'm stuck on the question of why the free tier is so important to them versus simply paying for Heroku. Surely doing a mass migration to a new PaaS just to claim a small per-project savings is a dubious proposition given the inevitably of a future rug-pull from wherever you migrate. On the other hand, if you're an individual with a bunch of small projects and you want to host them…
I can say that back in the glory days of Nokia Mobiles they certainly got lots of money, you can find this out easily by checking the company history.
They can certainly play for Heroku.