Ask HN: What should I use instead of Heroku?

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Supabase

#Developer Tools #Realtime Backend / API #Backend As A Service 428 social mentions

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ServerPilot.io

For PHP https://platform.sh has got a lot of traction, but it's notc cheap especially for small apps. If you hadn't wanted the Docker-based backing I would suggest trying one of the services that automates setting up your VMs at AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode etc like https://forge.laravel.com/, https://runcloud.io/, https://serverpilot.io/, https://www.cloudways.com/ etc.

#Hosting #Control Panels #Developer Tools 4 social mentions

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RunCloud

For PHP https://platform.sh has got a lot of traction, but it's notc cheap especially for small apps. If you hadn't wanted the Docker-based backing I would suggest trying one of the services that automates setting up your VMs at AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode etc like https://forge.laravel.com/, https://runcloud.io/, https://serverpilot.io/, https://www.cloudways.com/ etc.

#Hosting #Monitoring Tools #Developer Tools 11 social mentions

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Platform.sh

For PHP https://platform.sh has got a lot of traction, but it's notc cheap especially for small apps. If you hadn't wanted the Docker-based backing I would suggest trying one of the services that automates setting up your VMs at AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode etc like https://forge.laravel.com/, https://runcloud.io/, https://serverpilot.io/, https://www.cloudways.com/ etc.

#Cloud Hosting #Web Hosting #Wordpress Hosting 35 social mentions

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Laravel Forge

For PHP https://platform.sh has got a lot of traction, but it's notc cheap especially for small apps. If you hadn't wanted the Docker-based backing I would suggest trying one of the services that automates setting up your VMs at AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode etc like https://forge.laravel.com/, https://runcloud.io/, https://serverpilot.io/, https://www.cloudways.com/ etc.

#Hosting #Developer Tools #Web Hosting 25 social mentions

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CaptainDuckDuck

I recommend Caprover. It's a simple container environment that hosts your services via sensible nginx configurations and Docker swarm, has a cli tool that can be utilized for CI purposes, and provides easy spin-up for common OSS web-apps. I utilize it to host many different PHP and Java apps. https://github.com/caprover/caprover.

#Control Panels #Cloud Computing #VPS 11 social mentions

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Gomix

I absolutely adore https://www.glitch.com for low traffic, small and simple apps. It’s Joel Spolsky’s project; and he’s got Trello, StackOverflow and FogBugz as his previous companies (Fog Creek I think?). Give it a whirl! I think you can run PHP on there now too; see https://glitch.com/edit/#!/php-poc For even simpler (static JS/HTML), I just publish on GitLab or GitHub pages.

#Chatbots #CRM #Customer Iteraction 27 social mentions

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Code Zero

You may want to consider vanilla kubernetes and https://codezero.io for the development part of the SDLC. Also, here are some considerations when taking a platform based vs tools set based approach to the whole SDLC https://blog.codezero.io/5-myths-of-kubernetes/.

#Business & Commerce #Marketing Platform #CRM 20 social mentions

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Railway

Been a long-time fan of Railway (https://railway.app) — seems like it would be a great option here. If you wanna see pure magic, CMD+K —> PostgreSQL (or Redis). ~3s and you’re good to go.

#Software Engineering #Developer Tools #Tech 222 social mentions

10

Fly.io

I know others have suggested this too but https://fly.io is great! Very generous free tier, and it feels as magical as Heroku did when I first used it years ago. I’ve worked as an SRE and do a fair amount of infrastructure work at my job, so I’ve had periods of time where I ran my own k8s cluster for side projects and more recently ran a nomad cluster. The big caveat here is I enjoyed doing this and it helped my career experimenting with infra in my free time before suggesting it internally. I’ve also had bare metal servers and some of the whole classic fabulous monolith thing which is its own beast. All that said, if you just want some small easy to use compute with little maintenance definitely give Fly a try! (Not affiliated, just a happy new customer).

#Cloud Computing #Developer Tools #Cloud Hosting 435 social mentions