Amazon Lightsail VS Heroku

Amazon Lightsail Reviews

Heroku Reviews

1. mark-mercer    

   over 3 years ago
   Useful Cloud Platform

   Great service to build, run and manage applications entirely in the cloud!

   🏁 Competitors: Amazon AWS, Dokku on Digital Ocean, Firebase

   👍 Pros:    Easy user interface|Good customer service|Multi-language cloud application platform

   👎 Cons:    Limitation with some addons|Low network performance
2. jamestelford    

   Full Stack Developer at OutDev | about 4 years ago
   🏁 Competitors: Docker, Amazon AWS

   👍 Pros:    Powerful development environments|Great value for the money|Great customer support|Paas

Amazon Lightsail mentions (50)

• Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server

  Https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/?nc1=h_ls. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Top 20 Web Hosting Services in 2024 - Choose the Best for Your Website 🚀

  AWS Lightsail 🏆 Amazon's affordable VPS hosting service, starting at $3.50/month. Explore more: AWS Lightsail. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell

  LightSail is decent: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Any recommendations for .net web hosting with SQL Server?

  Even if it's part of the gargantuan mess that's AWS with its 200 interconnected services, AWS Lightsail is actually very intuitive and fairly priced. There's a super basic $5/month VPS, even though .NET is hungry and you'll likely want the $10 one for some extra RAM. You can easily install whatever database you like on the same instance the application is running on. Source: 11 months ago

• Configure a WordPress Instance with Amazon Lightsail

  Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly – virtual machines, containers, databases, CDN, load balancers, DNS management etc. This is especially good if you just need to get started quickly and have a good jump off point seeing as Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with Amazon Web Services (AWS) if you just need virtual private servers. Lightsail includes everything you... - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

Heroku mentions (71)

• How to keep an HTTP connection alive for 9 hours

  The app is deployed to Heroku and when it came time to switch the mode to email-on-account-creation mode, it was a very simple environment change:. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• How to Process Scheduled Queue Jobs in Node.js with BullMQ and Redis on Heroku

  Heroku is a cloud platform that makes it easy to deploy and scale web applications. It provides a number of features that make it ideal for deploying background job applications, including:. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• I made a Bot.. How do I use it?

  Once you've created it you can host it locally (this means leaving the program running on your computer) or host it through a service online. I haven't personally tried this yet, but I believe you can use a site like heroku.com or other similar services. Source: 10 months ago

• Making AJAX Applications Crawlable? How to build a simple web service on Google App Engine to produce HTML Snapshots?

  I have my app hosted on Heroku, who (to my knowledge) are unable to offer a solution for running a Headless (GUI-less) Browser - such as HTMLUnit - for generating HTML Snapshots for Googlebot to index my AJAX content. Source: 11 months ago

• Engineers who have a personal website/blog, what are you using to host/generate it?

  Over the years, I’ve gone from Time Warner’s Road Runner, to Tumblr, to GitHub Pages, to Godaddy hosted WordPress. Though, after Godaddy messed up a migration, I switched to self-hosting on Heroku. I wrote my blog engine using Crystal. Reference: ejstembler.com. Source: about 1 year ago