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I'd like to switch platforms but I'm SO fast and comfortable with Heroku.

Change costs for me might be high. I'd rather spend time on marketing / features that could get me 3 more customers/month to make up for it...

I learned Heroku at my coding boot camp and they have made thousands of $$ off of me since...

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Agreed, I've been using Heroku about 8 years now for my solo SaaS business. The most I've ever done in dev-ops is restarting a server and upgrading postgres versions. However, paying around $800/mo, I do fantasize sometimes on switching to AWS. Honestly I wouldn't even know where to start, and likely not a good use of time. For Heroku, I'd like to see HTTP/2 support, automated wildcard certs, and another Performance dyno option.

If you want an in-between I'm a huge fan of DigitalOcean. Fantastic documentation, better support in my experience, all in all more welcoming to the 'middle-guy.' Totally understand that it's probably not a great use of your time to switch over if your margins can afford 800/mo with ease.

DigitalOcean certainly is great, I'm using it too, but it's still far more work running your stuff there vs Heroku.

Start with Dokku

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