Heroku VS Greenhost

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

Greenhost Reviews

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 / 7 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: 12 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

Greenhost mentions (3)

• I'm inclined to think that Federation is a broken model

  The host also matters, at least when it comes to where your users will be, how many users you have, how much space you'll need, and what kind of hosting options there are available for you. For example, I used a micro-scale app host that typically did hosting for Minecraft and other apps; they were greenhost in the netherlands. I went with them because I wanted a green host -- I can't choose any of the more common... Source: 10 months ago

• Keep it private: How to be a journalist and manage your online privcy (self paced online training)

  Developed in collaboration by Greenhost and Free Press Unlimited, Totem is an online learning platform that offers educational courses about digital security and privacy, and related tools and tactics for journalists, activists and human rights defenders in a safe, online classroom environment. Source: about 2 years ago

• Green energy Rails host?

  Greenhost https://greenhost.net/ is a great option. It’s not Heroku, but you can use one of the open source, self hosted alternatives in their VPS. Source: almost 3 years ago