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I have moved a Rails and Go app to https://northflank.com. I have my Rails app running in their free project (limited to two services and 2 jobs) and my Go app in a paid project. I find the pricing to be very reasonable and considerably cheaper than Heroku.

I was looking for somewhere I could run web services and cron jobs both in the same place.

They have a Heroku importer, however I think you need to ask to have it turned on. I found that it was easier for me to build docker images for my apps and use a 'build service' instead however. YMMV

I found their support to be very responsive and enjoy using their UI. The UI, builds and so on all feel very fast.

Northflank can run databases, however for my databases I've been running them on ElephantSQL for some time (https://www.elephantsql.com) - even when I was on Heroku.

Free for Dev's PaaS list is worth a review: https://free-for.dev/#/?id=paas

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I'm just in the process of moving to Northflank from Heroku for my Django app after trying SO MANY other PaaS services. I really like how they organise things (apps have multiple services, the build stuff makes sense) and their support so far has been amazing. One of the few where I'm confidant they're not going to work as I need without too much work from me and not cause me stress in the future.

Do you see a way to delete your account in your account settings? Their privacy policy says it should be there but I can't find it.

I actually don't see a way to delete a project once created either.

Northflank co-founder here.

You can delete your project navigating to the billing page inside a project. To delete your account you can send a support request and we can process your request (described in the privacy policy). We'd like to automate it more, however we'd like a formal opt-in via email of the account/team owner when deleting backups and stateful workloads right now.

Can anyone say why DB disk space is so expensive compared to just a volume? Tempted to just roll my own with these prices.

Northflank co-founder here.

Addon disk pricing is the same as our volume pricing for services.

The disks are SSDs. We've added a margin on-top of GCP, EC2 and Azure SSD pricing so I wouldn't say they are expensive in comparison to other providers.

It's possible to configure HDD storage which is much cheaper, would be happy to enable that feature flag for you. SSD $0.30 per GB, HDD $0.15 per GB. We'll add HDD pricing to the site and start to enable it by default for everyone.

Hi I looked at the pricing page and cannot see managed postgres is that an option or would I install it myself on an nf-compute-N?

Managed Postgres is a feature and we install it for you on your selected resource plan, replica count, version, storage and other options.

thanks for this mate, was looking for a free tier paas to show off some proof of concept projects, northflank seems good.

Certainly the best option I've found for my needs. Good luck :)

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