A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting costs down

Re:A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting cost... by maxehmookau on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:13AM (#15897945)

It's been said already, but the idea that Heroku is expensive is provably incorrect.

They're not providing hosting, they're providing a service.

If I want self-hosted platforms, I'll manage my own docker containers on a GKE cluster or something similar. As it turns out, I want to write code and scale it to millions of people. Heroku lets me do that, and I don't need to hire an SRE team.

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Re:A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting cost... by diggan on Monday December 11, 2017 @01:20PM (#15899027)

Well, maybe provably incorrect for you but I can see that if you're a company outside the Silicon Valley bubble, Heroku would be way too expensive compared to other solutions. Even for me personally (living in Barcelona) I think it would just be too expensive to use for anything without feeling like I'm bleeding money.

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Re:A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting cost... by maxehmookau on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:10PM (#15918148)

I am not (and have never been) inside the Silicon Valley bubble. I live in the UK and work outside of London. I'm as far from the SV bubble as you can get and still work in tech.

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