Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)

Re:Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost) by vmception on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:11PM (#31185865)

Check Netlify

Or Vercel

Best scaling in their free plans

Heroku hobby is a joke in comparison and hasnt been updated in a decade while all their addons have gotten less and less featured while costing more and more

I host all my static assets on IPFS which practically nullifies the bandwidth limits of Netlify

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Re:Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost) by lambdaba on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:35AM (#31190101)

Could you elaborate on how you use IPFS? How fast is it? Do you use use a pinning service?

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Re:Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost) by vmception on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:46AM (#31193972)

I upload static assets to IPFS and add those static links to my project instead of having an "assets" folder.

IPFS is fast enough, I had these concerns too so I use a gateway for links as some of them cache files on their own CDN, for free.

Yes, I use a pinning service, I was extremely hesitant as many of them are just SaaS hosting like Pinata is and charge by bandwidth used, but there are free ones like https://web3.storage which for some reason is combining Filecoin and IPFS together for each upload and liveness/pinning.

Ironically, Pinata also acts as a gateway and can then be used for free if you want. But there are other gateways. Cloudfront has one but what it decides to cache is strange.

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