GitHub Pages VS Heroku

GitHub Pages 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

GitHub Pages mentions (466)

• Yet Another Tour of an Open-Source Elm SPA

  For this application, Elm controlled the routing. So, I had to adapt the scripts to deploy to Netlify instead of GitHub Pages. Why? Because you need to be able to tell the web server to redirect all relevant requests to the application. GitHub Pages doesn't have support for it. - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago

• How to build your interactive resume in 4 simple and 2 easy steps

  It's super easy to publish a static site like the resume with GitHub Pages. Just check out the docs. - Source: dev.to / 23 days ago

• 100+ FREE Resources Every Web Developer Must Try

  GitHub Pages: Host your static websites directly from your GitHub repository. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

  As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) or Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/), hosted on GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) or GitLab Pages (https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/pages/), would be a good match. If you set up GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD to do the build and deploy (see e.g.... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Top 20 Free Static Web Hosting Services in 2024 ⚡️

  Ideal for open source projects, docs sites, and portfolios. GitHub Pages. - Source: dev.to / 3 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 / 8 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: 12 months ago