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Unlike most of their competitors, I don't think I have ever heard of someone migrating to Heroku. Seemingly the only people who are still using it are using it because they started with it, usually with their free product. I'm no expert or anything, but it seems like a bad idea to cut off that funnel of future customers by eliminating that free product.

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I never 'got' what heroku was all about , but i have been working with linode, aws and similar for more than 10 years. I find it pretty easy to spin something up in aws

Otoh i know of a medium company (500 employees) that started in heroku and is moving to aws. Apparently they got to the top tier of the DB , and they've stumbled with several limitations by some lack of access .

Heroku is great for small teams but it's expensive. It also offered automation that wasn't easily available anywhere else 15 years ago. It's a different story in 2022.

I used to start my projects on Heroku because the first few iterations of the prototype can run on the free dynos, then hobby tier for the first production, better database when needed, and so on — slowly growing as it should be.

Now I will either replace it by some DigitalOcean droplet or Fly.io or Railway.app or whatnot. Whichever makes most sense for the growth of the project.

I am pretty sure some of my clients will stay on Heroku just because it's easier and they already pay for most services (so no free tier already) but it means NO NEW clients are coming to Heroku from me.

If you're looking at alternatives, you might check out Adaptable.io. There's a free tier that includes the database.

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