What are the alternatives to Heroku? I'm looking for something that makes it easy to deploy and launch services. http://deis.io looks promising but it isn't production ready yet.
It took a few hours, but I was able to get my Heroku-based Rails app up and running on a Dokku droplet (to be fair, the most time-consuming part was getting the SSH keys right and figuring out that I needed a domain name - e.g., couldn't just set it up with a droplet's IP address - at least not with the DigitalOcean tutorial's instructions: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...).
From the docs it looks like Deis reuqires an advanced Ops person to manage a cluster of Deis machines.
I use it for Node deployment, but they also host ruby, php, go and java apps.
Learning how to secure your servers and scale your app is not an overhead, it is a competence compared with those who don't.