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What other platform would you recommend? I'm considering moving my next hobby app somewhere else...

Move to an open-source orchestration platform and turn compute into a commodity so you don't feel tied to any particular VM vendor. I recommend Kubernetes, but there's also docker swarm, mesos, Nomad, Rancher, and probably about 100 other options out there, many of them very viable.

In the very near future I really hope to see cloud vendors losing a lot of their business for hosted applications, and just becoming big elastic pools of bytes and FLOPs, with open source orchestration tools managing the consumption of those resources and keeping cognitive overhead low.

I must be out of date, but my impression is that heroku's ease of use deploying and configuring applications through the web UI can't really be matched with kubernetes, mesos or others, which would need thousands of lines of orchestration code to work. Is that not the case anymore?

Re Kubernetes, there will be some extra lines of course, but I really doubt it will run into the thousands. For example, I have a few (test) apps running on a (test) k8s cluster with a few small yaml files and a small shell script to build a docker image.

Not sure if you're trolling or just love devops :).

Since he said hobby app, I'd say throw it Digital Ocean for $5, running Ubuntu and letsencrypt for SSL. Use the DO guides to install whatever you want instead of paying separately for each service.

Haha yeah, just love devops I guess. Playing with kubernetes has been one of my hobbies for a few months. I suppose it's overkill for most hobby use cases, but I set up a small home cluster and have been loving it.

It's much more natural now that I have some experience and now my little hobby apps can go on that cluster, and if I decide I want to deploy one for reals, it's just a few tweaks to get it going in any number of places.

Right there with you...I setup a home Proxmox cluster for LXC / QEMU. Runs home automation apps, Plex, Gitlab, Rundeck, etc.. I like to call it Cloud Corner.

Obligatory "Heroku is Dead" article: https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/

Check out Flynn (https://flynn.io/) & https://github.com/flynn/flynn

Honestly, google app engine especially if you can stay in their free tier

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