Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend

Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by joshmn on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:24PM (#10416208)

I love Dokku, but DOs performance has tanked so hard, and is slowly becoming a haven for spam and "hackers". So many better alternatives.

Current favorites (in no specific order): OVH (don't judge, their performance is wicked, just don't expect support), RAMNode, BuyVM, Vultr, 6sync, SparkNode.

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Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by deftnerd on Monday October 19, 2015 @07:21PM (#10416465)

Check out LunaNode too. They're an OpenStack provider in Canada that let you not just spin up VM's, but also have your own virtual network, floating IP addresses, block storage, billing by the hour, and some other neat stuff.

I've started using them over DO & Vultr and I've been really impressed.

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Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by icebraining on Monday October 19, 2015 @07:07PM (#10416404)

Since we're listing favorites, I'm a fan of TransIP. Similar prices and plans to DO, but in my experience they offer better performance, plus they have a NAS service which makes it appealing if one needs to handle larger amounts of data (up to 400Tb).

No affiliation, just a happy customer.

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Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by joshmn on Monday October 19, 2015 @07:18PM (#10416451)

I hadn't heard of them until just now, but they look really sweet. I wish more companies would offer a NAS service, or a high-availability NAS service — would be nice for Gitlab instances, for example.

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Re:Heroku is no longer the hobbyist's friend by zacharybk on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @09:16AM (#10418899)

Hey Joshmn!

Zach here, Director of Support at DigitalOcean. Thanks for raising a few concerns.

I'm going to shoot you an email to learn more about what's not going right for you.

Best, Zach

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