We are really recommending https://www.clever-cloud.com/ . Their stack is awesome, great uptime and great support.
Stuff like this should always be disclosed. Something like "My co-founder / friend built ..." would be totally fine, but this comment looks like it intentionally obscures the connection. Not a good look.
Plus, I doubt they would spend their lives building the project and not recommend it.
Other project meaning actually founding that project together [1]:
> The Makers for Life collective and project were founded by three entrepreneurs in Nantes. Quentin Adam (CEO Clever Cloud), Baptiste Jamin and Valérian Saliou (Co-founders Crisp) [...]
You live in the same city. You founded a project with him. It's not like you have submitted patches to Linux from different parts of the world, without ever seeing each other.
I don't want to sound like I have something personal (I didn't even know your names until yesterday) but your assumption that the readers here on HN have no clue makes me sick.
If you know each other, that should be disclosed. I have no qualms about recommending a friend's startup, given that the friendship is disclosed.
[1] https://makair.life/2020/05/01/makers-for-life-the-making-of...
Very reliable, I've never had a problem with it.
The truth is, on this scale Heroku worked well too. The reason to move for me was that they are an EU company so there is less questions from my clients about GDPR compliance.
I'd say the UI is quite old-school and I am missing good built-in metrics. There are some paid add-ons providing metrics but I'd really want to have it built-in.