A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting costs down

Re:A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting cost... by jacques_chester on Sunday December 10, 2017 @08:12PM (#15894510)

There's minikube, but so far as I'm aware, it's not really meant for production use; it exists mostly for local development.

My own company has Pivotal Web Services[0], which gives a Heroku-like experience using Cloud Foundry. Pricing is per-megabyte[1], plus services. I expect we'll introduce a container service before long, because we like to dogfood our stuff with real production workloads.

[0] http://run.pivotal.io/

[1] http://run.pivotal.io/pricing/

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Re:A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting cost... by StavrosK on Sunday December 10, 2017 @08:20PM (#15894539)

Yeah, minikube is just for trying K8s out. PWS looks interesting, but, as with other managed/cloud offerings, it's much more expensive than a dedicated server (50ish EUR/mo for a 64 GB RAM i7).

For my side-projects, where I am cost-sensitive, I think the best solution would be a dedicated server with something like Dokku. It would just be nice if the "something" could be an industry standard.

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Re:A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting cost... by jacques_chester on Sunday December 10, 2017 @09:04PM (#15894668)

I think it's hard to split the difference. If there was a service using RackHD to spit out cheap bare metal it'd be more doable to run on top of that, I think.

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