Running Costs of a SaaS app

Re:Running Costs of a SaaS app by marban on Monday February 20, 2017 @12:55PM (#13689338)

Have you ever considered any Heroku alternatives? I've had quite disappointing cost experiences last time i used it.

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Re:Running Costs of a SaaS app by destroytoday on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:02PM (#13689401)

We've thought about it, but Cushion is incredibly lightweight and doesn't need to be used constantly, so our load is very low. We've only needed 2 dynos since we launched and we're nowhere close to needing more than that. As much as I'd like to lower the cost, they truly take so much weight off our shoulders. I gladly pay what we're paying now, so it's not an issue for us.

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Re:Running Costs of a SaaS app by cobookman on Monday February 20, 2017 @06:39PM (#13692016)

Have you looked into Appengine Flex. Appengine flex is a PaaS like heroku, and will scale up any docker container. Its a great solution for your early days, and when you do need to move to a 1000+ node cluster its easy to switch from Appengine Flex to kubernetes. You also might get a lot of free startup credits https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/

(Disclaimer, I work for Google).

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/

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Re:Running Costs of a SaaS app by destroytoday on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:08AM (#13695135)

I haven't, but I'll check it out. Seems like it's still beta? (says not to use in production)

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Re:Running Costs of a SaaS app by marban on Monday February 20, 2017 @08:10PM (#13692432)

You should mention Python 3 support specifically.

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