Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS

Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by esafak on Thursday June 15, 2023 @01:51AM (#36336891)

So what are the new Herokus? What do you recommended for starting a serious project? AWS AppRunner? How about something open source?

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by jiggawatts on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:40AM (#36337163)

Azure App Service is a thing that everyone just skips over, listing competitors with an annual revenue smaller than some individual Azure App Service deployments...

I mean seriously, railway.app has just fifteen employees in total, and revenue in the single-digit millions.

Reminds me of when someone posted a "cloud storage vendors poster" with hundreds of vendors, some with revenues smaller than a single Azure Storage Account one of my customers was using... to back up a single server.

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by andai on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:50AM (#36337564)

I think Railway nails the user experience, but basically every time I use it something goes wrong in a small or a big way (build fails randomly, UI glitches, random 404s in the control panel that fix themselves minutes later).

Used it for a few clients but it's tough to keep using it with all the issues, so I'm looking at Render and other alternatives. But if Railway could smooth out the reliability / stability, I wouldn't have any reason to switch.

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by jiggawatts on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:12AM (#36337701)

PS: I'm not calling out Railway specifically, I just like to laugh at how the second biggest public cloud is just a figment of our collective imaginations.

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by ghiculescu on Thursday June 15, 2023 @01:57AM (#36336926)

fly.io is the least bad.

But honestly nothing these days is as good as Heroku was 10 years ago, if you just want to put something online and don't care how it gets there.

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by babyshake on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:05AM (#36336973)

Vercel for serverless apps is very easy to do.

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by Nicholas_C on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:18AM (#36337034)

I see Render being mentioned on HN quite a bit as the new Heroku. I’m still using Heroku for my personal projects but have been meaning to check Render out.

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by JanSt on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:34AM (#36337125)

Digital Ocean App Platform is really good for what I run :)

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by kkapelon on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:06AM (#36336976)

Check railway.app, fly.io, render.com

Possibly qovery.com as well.

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by mstocks on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:11AM (#36336997)

FL0.com is new and looks v solid

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by flybayer on Thursday June 15, 2023 @10:49AM (#36341300)

https://Flightcontrol.dev is a relatively new one that provides a PaaS-like experience on your own AWS account

*I'm cofounder & CEO

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by zoomzoom on Thursday June 15, 2023 @11:16AM (#36341723)

I'am a cofounder of withcoherence.com, a PaaS developer experience on top of your own cloud. We are not open-source, but we support both AWS and GCP and provide a free tier of usage. Happy to answer any questions, feel free to get in touch!

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Re:Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS by atomicnumber3 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:40PM (#36348618)

Can it be that between docker and digital ocean giving you a gig of ram for $6/mo, people are just DIYing it much more often these days?

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