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I've just tried heroku so far and took me about 30 min to deploy my prototype, but I read there are limitations. Go take a look at fly.io and I think there's also another one that specialize in elixir hosting. Once I understand elixir/erlang better, I will probably want to host there.

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I got around to trying https://render.com/ recently, it's also pretty easy and cheaper than Heroku, I think they support Phoenix/Elixir but I've never used it or tried. Also side note Heroku seems to have just stalled and atrophied as a product since the Salesforce acquisition, still one of the easiest hosts though.

Yes, they support Elixir (including clustered apps) and it's very easy. I wrote a tutorial and did a 6 minute screencast on that a while back: https://alchemist.camp/articles/elixir-releases-deployment-r...

I generally use a VPS, but Render is a top-notch host if you want something managed. In many ways, I think it's like Heroku was before Salesforce bought them.

You can deploy pretty much anything on Render, AFAIK it’s all container based.

Here’s the docs for Phoenix deployments: https://render.com/docs/deploy-phoenix

what a horrible name for a site, I can't imagine googling for how to add x extension to postgres with render.

what type of results do you imagine you'd get for that kind of query rather than what you'd want to get? especially given the context of postgres extension, i'd assume if there was content out there that google would find it with that query.

A friend of mine who worked at an SEO agency once had a client who's company name was a misspelling of some noun that google would automatically fix which i found hilarious.

Query + render.com seems to do the trick.

On the topic of render there was a really nice podcast on Software Engineering Daily from the founder talking about their product.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/12/07/render-with-...

(Render founder) Lots of Phoenix/Elixir apps are hosted natively (no Docker) on Render, and of course we support Dockerized apps as well.

https://render.com/docs/deploy-phoenix

https://www.gigalixir.com/ is likely what you're referencing. Since they're focused on Elixir first it supports a buncha the nice things the BEAM supports, such as native clustering, hot upgrades, and opening a REPL to a running cluster.

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