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Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?

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Post by acjohnson55 »

bluedino wrote: post #44
acjohnson55 wrote: post #15

In my experience Dotcloud has the advantage of giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. But I had issues with the reliability of deployment there. I used to love the sandbox, but I dropped Dotcloud as a provider after that was removed without a drop-in replacement. However, I still use them to serve Redis, and so far, it's way cheaper than using a dedicated Redis service. I looked…

> giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. I thought the point of Heroku was not having to SSH into your servers?

Sure, and maybe one day they can make that need obsolete. I just don't think that day has arrived yet.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?

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Post by acjohnson55 »

dagw wrote: post #40

While on the topic, does anybody know any Heroku alternative that offers postgis, preferably at a more reasonable price than the 200$/month Heroku charge.

Dotcloud offers the service: http://docs.dotcloud.com/services/postgresql/

The biggest caveat is that you don't get integrated no-fuss horizontal scaling the way you do with their MySQL and MongoDB products.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?

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Post by acjohnson55 »

stephanos2k wrote: post #29

I like CloudBees (Java only). It's powerful, has high reliability and auto-scaling baked in.

If I recall correctly, it's not Java-only anymore. I started setting up a Jenkins server for CI for my Django app. I never finished getting the configuration right, and I'm not 100% positive you can serve Django from it (I don't see why you wouldn't be able to though), so I can't give an endorsement backed by experience, but it's something to look into.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?

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Post by ConceitedCode »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #55

Does anybody have experience deploying Django to Elastic Beanstalk? I'd love to hear a comparison between them and Heroku.

When I finally got it to work it worked great, but took me a good few hours to figure out some stuff that should of been documented at the time, but couldn't find it. That's just apart of trying something new though. I tried it when it was first announced so should of improved documentation since then.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?

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Post by sergiotapia »

0stanislav wrote: post #57

As far as Node.js is concerned, Stackful.io [ http://stackful.io ] provides an easy (and low-cost) way to deploy and scale your app on Digital Ocean SSD servers. Meteor support is coming next week, and Rails will follow shortly. (Disclaimer: I do work at Stackful.io)

Your 8$/month plan brings a tear to my eye. My ONLY gripe against Heroku is the lack of a hard drive to save things in, for example user uploads, etc.

Does Stackful offer the hard drive to use as we please? If so, you just got yourself a customer. (As soon as you support Rails)

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?

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Post by 0stanislav »

sergiotapia wrote: post #58
0stanislav wrote: post #57

As far as Node.js is concerned, Stackful.io [ http://stackful.io ] provides an easy (and low-cost) way to deploy and scale your app on Digital Ocean SSD servers. Meteor support is coming next week, and Rails will follow shortly. (Disclaimer: I do work at Stackful.io)

Your 8$/month plan brings a tear to my eye. My ONLY gripe against Heroku is the lack of a hard drive to save things in, for example user uploads, etc. Does Stackful offer the hard drive to use as we please? If so, you just got yourself a customer. (As soon as you support Rails)

Yep. You have your app running on a Digital Ocean virtual instance and all resources there are yours.

The $8 plan, for example, offers 20 GB SSD storage, and this includes files and database.

You can sign up, so we can notify you when Rails support is ready.

Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?

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Post by fabiokung »

pearkes wrote: post #17
acjohnson55 wrote: post #15

In my experience Dotcloud has the advantage of giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. But I had issues with the reliability of deployment there. I used to love the sandbox, but I dropped Dotcloud as a provider after that was removed without a drop-in replacement. However, I still use them to serve Redis, and so far, it's way cheaper than using a dedicated Redis service. I looked…

> giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. FWIW you can do: heroku run bash Which let's you mess around on a new dyno (not an existing one).

`heroku run bash` is still the best option, but I've always wanted to ssh into heroku dynos myself, so I did this:

https://github.com/fabiokung/heroku-ssh

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