Local by Flywheel 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

Local by Flywheel mentions (227)

• Introducing WP Setup

  Developing WordPress plugins and themes often requires a reliable development environment. Current we have good solutions as wp-env from Autommatic, Local WP from WP Engine, Docker, XAMPP (for old ones) and so on. All this can be good suits for a development environment, specially Local WP that is probably the easiest one to get up and running and wp-env that leverages Docker as a development environment in a very... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Self hosting wordpress for testing

  Personally if you’re on windows I like using localwp (localwp.com) from wheelfly / wpengine it lets you quickly spin up multiple sites, duplicate them, test mail, one click admin, etc. Its helped me prototype multiple websites over the last year faster than I ever did manually setting up Wordpress instances on vms or docker. Source: 6 months ago

• WordPress in Linux

  Adding to the above recommendations, you could also try Local by Flywheel: https://localwp.com/. Source: 6 months ago

• Is there any training program on basic PHP for WordPress?

  IMHO Don't worry about the Flywheel environment that's referred to in in the course, just use Local WP to provision a local hosting environment https://localwp.com/ – or MAMP or whatever you prefer – and go from there. Source: 9 months ago

• Is there a "For Dummies" explanation of using PHPStorm from Win10 and Xdebug remotely?

  I tried to set things up locally with Local, but man was that slow and the available components (like PHP) are not the same version as on the production server so I worry about compatibility. Source: 10 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 / 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 / 10 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: 11 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: about 1 year 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