It would be great if you could let everyone know (here, or as a later Tell HN) which alternatives you're considering. People have chimed in with suggestions before (Fly, Render, etc.) but it always helps to have additional thoughts on this, especially from someone running a high traffic'ed site. Thanks!

We've been tracking these threads lately and there are so many interesting companies in the space like those mentioned above. I'm the cofounder of a new company called Coherence, that we think creates a new direction and offers a better platform for the next leap forward. Unlike the modern PaaS solutions we're closing the loop from dev to prod offering cloud IDE's, dev environments, branch previews, and deployments — all in one integrated dashboard. Check us out at withcoherence.com

Will do. Currently building up a doc and comparison matrix along with test deploys.

Platform.sh looks promising. Render was a breeze to setup, loading our ENVs was the longest task.

Lu with Massdriver (YC W22) here. Our public launch is June 29th but we'd love to get some feedback from the community before then. If you sign up at massdriver.cloud we can push you through so you can set up a POC.

We tried[0] to find Heroku alternative a couple of weeks ago. In short Render.com feels solid and Railway.app very promising, hope they will do more progress soon.

[0] https://nixsanctuary.com/best-paas-backend-hosting-heroku-vs...

I migrated a static site and a few apis off heroku onto render.com a few months ago and the experience has been really great. Fills the niche of Heroku perfectly for my use cases.

We are in pre-planning for our exit as well. We will be on AWS EKS(perhaps with lambda/ECS mix) by the time our contract is up next March.

Too many issues both discussed here and undiscussed. Also, their upsell approach is stale:

* Public runtime has a 20 min cooldown after 3 app crashes

* Hobby pro dynos don't report container mem limits due to ancient cgroup setups(gotta upgrade to performance M)

* No Dyno sizes between 2.GB and 14GB ?!

Bunch of BS trying to push you towards Enterprise accounts, more expensive dynos, and private spaces(which cost more Dyno units).

We are looking at a number of alternatives as well. A number of the common ones mentioned don't have feature parity with Heroku for larger apps (log drains to external logging services, CLIs, etc). Aptible looked pretty mature (they are trying to be Heroku, but for apps that need more security/compliance), and Platform.sh is intriguing as well.

Funnily enough, it's down right now :(

It's also the lack of communication and dealing with support is not great.