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Re:The Decline of Heroku by AlchemistCamp on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:39AM (#26788181)
I agree with you for the Heroku of a decade ago.

Now, I'd say Render is the modern version of what Heroku was. It's super easy to use for Rails/Laravel/Node/etc, it doesn't break clustering of Elixir apps and static sites are free.

Re:The Decline of Heroku by bliteben on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:12AM (#26793317)
I keep seeing render come up, but every time I am shocked they paid money (I assume) for that domain name, as there will be no way to google "render rails deployment", "render react deployment" etc. What a horrible name for a company like this.
Re:The Decline of Heroku by iudqnolq on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @08:01AM (#26805867)
It's interesting you don't see it. I wonder what sort of profile google's made of you.

I get their website as the first result for both queries, both in my signed in profile and in a clean browser session over a vpn.

Re:The Decline of Heroku by connorlay on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @05:43PM (#26813489)
> it doesn't break clustering of Elixir apps

Interesting! I've been experimenting with Gigalixir for a Heroku-ish experience that supports Elixir clustering... I'll have to give Render a look and compare the two.

Re:The Decline of Heroku by kingosticks on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:06AM (#26789447)
Unless you have a static site, in which case there are loads of options out there, there doesn't seem to be a free tier. Wouldn't fly.io be the modern version (I'm not saying heroku is outdated, I think it's still brilliant)?
Re:The Decline of Heroku by D13Fd on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:44AM (#26788491)
I love Render. Really nice services, good UI, and they keep iterating.
Re:The Decline of Heroku by ZWoz on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @02:54PM (#26797261)
What is Render and what is does?