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> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users.

Sad to see this, but not surprised after the Salesforce purchase. Heroku was a great place for hobbyists and tiny one-off projects. What's a good alternative?

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I've found https://dokku.com to be a great (self-hosted) alternative to heroku. For hobby and small company size a cheap root server will do great. I've been running one at Hetzner for ~5EUR/month for more than a year now and had a very smooth experience.

There is also https://caprover.com, which seems to be more advanced and supports compose and docker swarm.

Haven't used them personally, but https://render.com/ has been highly recommended here.

I have just recently deployed a small Rails project on Render and I really like it so far. Good docs, great UI.

Render is great but doesn’t offer a long-term usable free tier for database-backed projects.

However, if you’re looking to move a project that costs you money off Heroku, you’re likely to be quite happy with the price-performance ratio that Render offers. I certainly am.

https://render.com/docs/migrate-from-heroku

Good UI with great stats, but stopped using after few days 'cause the builds are painfully slow.

fly.io i think - never tried it but HN feedback has been pretty positive on it

I've tried it for a small project. It's about as easy to use as Heroku.

I have tried it and found it to be really really good. It's a little more DIY than Heroku, but not by too much. They are moving really fast too, hiring people to focus on specific use cases (Laravel, Rails, etc.)

If you're making heavy use of Heroku addons, you'll probably miss that quite a bit.

Fly is really good. If you go over the free tier limits by under $5 they don't charge too, which gives a bit more flexibility on hobby projects.

It has potential, the VMM is a bit Rusty...

Ok, that was terrible.

my apologies, seeing modern VMMs actually get used for once always hits different.

OK, but if you do it again we're converting to QEMU.

from Fly.io to Bye.io in one simple trick..

Have been using mogenius.com, they have a pretty generous free tier and lots of cloud-native features

I think https://www.koyeb.com/ could be what you are looking for. Let me know what you think! (Disclaimer, I work for Koyeb)

Digital Ocean has 3 free apps as far as I'm aware. Those have basically been super easy to setup and forget for me. I have a few websites running off it for a couple of years with no maintenance on my part.

A self hosted and minimal alternative is Piku: https://piku.github.io/ (disclaimer: I'm a contributor).

Google App Engine is still useable on the free tier

Haven’t tried them out yet, but railway.app looks promising. Same for fly.io

I can't believe they are killing the free tier? :o

What a drastic change in strategy !

Think even Azure has a (crappy) free app engine offering as well

GCP Cloud Run

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