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I recommend against using Zeit. I tried their offering this year and it was too much in beta. I honestly couldn't even get a basic service deployed because my defined dependencies wouldn't install. My web service deployed fine using the serverless offering of another cloud that I won't name, although it was not AWS. As a disclaimer, I have no conflict of interest.

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They killed their Docker offering right about after they launched it, mostly because it's too difficult/expensive to scale containers, so they forced their entire user base onto the serverless paradigm, because it was convenient for them. Their PR story is it's "better for everyone", except there remain use cases (aka websocket support) that remain unsolved for months on their new platform. To give them credit, they didn't fully deprecate Docker-- old customers can use it, for an indeterminate amount of time.

Heh, that's precisely what Amazon did early on. "It's difficult to make servers reliably persist at scale, so everyone should learn how to not need persistent servers, which is better for everyone".

Anyone know of an alternate hosting service that is as simple as including a Dockerfile and changing your DNS, other than Zeit and Heroku?

GAE is pretty close. See eg https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-custom-runt...

Not exactly a hosting service, but this is (very) simple Dockerfile deployment:

https://github.com/snowjs/cli/tree/secrets

How about https://github.com/dokku/dokku ?

There is a one-click install for Dokku on digitlocean.

Azure Web Apps are pretty close.

Too difficult to scale containers?

Do you have a source for this?

Now is hit-and-miss for me. Works great for the most part but they seem more focused on moving fast than stability.

At one point they (without any warning that I could see) turned on a CDN for all my deployments that didn't take the host header into account... so suddenly all the various URLs leading to my landing page generator all returned a single customer's page. Annoying.

I’ve been using zeit / now for the past two months to host static sites and it’s been excellent. Haven’t tried a node app yet but their core service seems really easy to use and I haven’t had any issues.

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