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An Update on Heroku

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Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by esseph »

ezekg wrote: post #54
culi wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's a couple decent alternatives out there: https://alternativeto.net/software/heroku/ There are also a lot of cool "self-hosted Heroku" alternatives - Coolify (PHP) (2020) https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify - Dokku (Go) (2013) https://github.com/dokku/dokku - Dokploy (TypeScript) (2024) https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy - CapRover (TypeScript) (2017) https://github.com/caprover/caprover - Komodo (Rus…

Literally nobody who seriously uses Heroku wants to self-host their own Heroku.

What DO you want?

Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by decidertm »

Disclaimer: Founder of northflank.com here so very clearly biased. But if you’re looking for an alternative, reach out. If not, all good.

Heroku pioneered what a PaaS could be, alongside Cloud Foundry and others, so I’m genuinely sad to see it go down like this.

We built Northflank because we saw enterprises wanting to deploy workloads in their own VPC with Heroku-level simplicity. Over the past 5 years, our mission has been solving the graduation problem where companies outgrow their PaaS and have to eventually migrate.

Northflank runs in your VPC (AWS/GCP/Azure/OCI) with the same git-push experience. We have customers ranging from small startups to governments and public companies who would've otherwise built their own internal developer platform. They either use Northflank as-is in their own cloud or use our API to build their IDP on top of it.

Most common use cases are preview environments and production workloads. Happy to answer questions and throw in some credits if you're evaluating alternatives.

Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by ezekg »

decidertm wrote: post #82

Disclaimer: Founder of northflank.com here so very clearly biased. But if you’re looking for an alternative, reach out. If not, all good. Heroku pioneered what a PaaS could be, alongside Cloud Foundry and others, so I’m genuinely sad to see it go down like this. We built Northflank because we saw enterprises wanting to deploy workloads in their own VPC with Heroku-level simplicity. Over the past 5 years, our mission…

Do you have any public docs on how y'all migrate customers out of Heroku Postgres without downtime?

Seems to be the sticking point for a lot of people, myself included.

Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by decidertm »

ezekg wrote: post #83
decidertm wrote: post #82

Disclaimer: Founder of northflank.com here so very clearly biased. But if you’re looking for an alternative, reach out. If not, all good. Heroku pioneered what a PaaS could be, alongside Cloud Foundry and others, so I’m genuinely sad to see it go down like this. We built Northflank because we saw enterprises wanting to deploy workloads in their own VPC with Heroku-level simplicity. Over the past 5 years, our mission…

Do you have any public docs on how y'all migrate customers out of Heroku Postgres without downtime? Seems to be the sticking point for a lot of people, myself included.

hey!

northflank supports the same buildpacks that you run on Heroku, so it should be fairly straightforward.

we have these docs for a more detailed walkthrough:

1/ https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/migrate-from-hero...

2/ https://northflank.com/blog/how-to-migrate-from-heroku-a-ste...

Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by airsat18 »

PanMan wrote: post #35

It really surprises me there isn’t a modern heroku alternative that supports the same.. things. Like build pipelines, routing included, multiple worker types. AWS is way less batteries included. And none of the competitors seems to offer the same kind of service, last time I looked.

northflank comes close

Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by bobbyiliev »

I've been using DigitalOcean App Platform for a while now. It's not a 1:1 Heroku replacement, but the git-based deploys, managed DBs, and ability to move to Droplets later without a big migration have worked very well for me.

Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by ojusave »

swat535 wrote: post #76
kuczmama wrote: post #48

This is a sad day. I used heroku for years (in the past). A few alternatives to consider - https://render.com/ - this is very close to heroku - https://coolify.io/ - My personal favorite. It's slightly more involved, but you can run it on any hardware like hetzner and save a boatload.

How does render compare to fly.io? Does anyone has experience running production rails apps on these?

https://render.com/articles/render-vs-fly-io

Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by WildGreenLeave »

Wow, I have to admit that I have not heard anyone in the past 2 years or so to be on Heroku so it makes sense. I think they handled it quite well knowing that there most likely have been a steady decline of users.

Generally I would avoid promoting myself but in this situation I think it fits the topic. I'm co-founder of a Platform-as-a-Service based in Europe named Ploi Cloud [0]. We focus on web applications working on NodeJS and PHP but would be open to other platforms if people need it. Heroku has always been a source of inspiration to me so if you are looking for an alternative and care about it having a strong European presence please check it out. (We do have a US location too!)

0: https://ploi.cloud

Re: An Update on Heroku

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Post by dluan »

so EOL announcement without saying when it will be, but eventually.

we've been loyal heroku customers for over a decade. should have switched off long ago, but as a small team, it was too valuable. such a shame.

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