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Based on our record, Heroku seems to be a lot more popular than InstantWP. While we know about 71 links to Heroku, we've tracked only 5 mentions of InstantWP. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
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
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
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: 11 months ago
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: about 1 year ago
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
I have a couple different blogs, one of them is journal-like. I use a self-hosted WordPress. I highly recommend* WP because you can do pretty much anything with it and it works great as a journal/diary right out of the box. If you host it online and want it private that's easy enough to do with a plugin and a few settings tweaks. However, WordPress does not actually require it be on the internet to work. You can... Source: over 1 year ago
Offline Editing/Testing Tool: (https://instantwp.com) $0 ... DONT make edits to a live site, unless your superman (ps you arnt). Good for demo's, stand-alone from USB/cloud. Source: almost 2 years ago
If you don't want anyone to see the site does it need to be online at all? You could use something like https://instantwp.com or https://localwp.com to host a local instance of WordPress. You would be able to install any plugin you want. Source: almost 3 years ago
I think they're referring to InstantWP. Source: almost 3 years ago
If OP is just wanting to tinker around and also not install anything, they could download InstantWP and put a blank PHP file in the base directory and access it through a web browser locally. Source: about 3 years ago
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