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I find this interesting that people are looking for cheaper alternatives to Heroku and completely agree that Heroku gets expensive fast, especially for hobby sites. But one thing to consider is the value that Heroku provides.

Heroku automates the provisioning and configuring servers, deploying code to those servers, scaling servers, etc. It's more than just cheap hosting.

If you're looking for cheap hosting, there's tons of alternatives out there. If you're looking for cheaper alternatives that provide the same value, the search gets a little tougher, and understandably so.

Edit - typos

Finding a replacement for Heroku seems to be on a lot of people's priority lists. Why?

What are the major issues people have with Heroku?

It can get very expensive very quick.

The article gives an explanation of their particular issue, but in general the most common one: price, or forced downtime, depending on whether you use or not free dynos.

https://www.reactiveops.com/blog/migrating_from_heroku_to_ku...

This article gives a good explanation of when/why a company might decide to migrate away from Heroku.

Heroku provides a really great service, but one size fits all only fits for so long.

NodeChef is a very good alternative to Heroku for Nodejs apps. https://www.nodechef.com/

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