Re:A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting cost...
by seanwilson on Monday December 11, 2017 @07:31AM
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Some of the big sells about Heroku for me are:
- Heroku takes care of patching the OS for you.
- You can scale easily to more than one server.
- If a server goes down or becomes unresponsive, Heroku will essentially destroy and recreate it.
- There's lots of simple options for backups, rollbacks, logging and alerts.
How does this and other solutions like Dokku compare? If your project isn't making much money I can understand wanting to keep costs low. If you're building something for a client or are making a profit though, trying to save something like $1K (a few days of a developers time) a year doesn't make a lot of sense. To get all of the above, you're going to have to spend significantly more in developer time and end up with something less robust which will likely have lots of growing pains. Heroku lets you just get on with the coding.
- Heroku takes care of patching the OS for you.
- You can scale easily to more than one server.
- If a server goes down or becomes unresponsive, Heroku will essentially destroy and recreate it.
- There's lots of simple options for backups, rollbacks, logging and alerts.
How does this and other solutions like Dokku compare? If your project isn't making much money I can understand wanting to keep costs low. If you're building something for a client or are making a profit though, trying to save something like $1K (a few days of a developers time) a year doesn't make a lot of sense. To get all of the above, you're going to have to spend significantly more in developer time and end up with something less robust which will likely have lots of growing pains. Heroku lets you just get on with the coding.