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An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

An Update on Heroku

Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Heroku dashboard—both existing and new—can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service, or day-to-day usage. Core platform functionality, including applications, pipelines, teams, …

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Feb 6 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadkuczmamaFeb 6

This is a sad day. I used heroku for years (in the past).

A few alternatives to consider

- https://render.com/ - this is very close to heroku

- https://coolify.io/ - My personal favorite. It's slightly more involved, but you can run it on any hardware like hetzner and save a boatload.

Cloud Application Platform | Render

On Render, you can build, deploy, and scale your apps with unparalleled ease – from your first user to your billionth.

Render
Show threadswat535Feb 6
How does render compare to fly.io?
Does anyone has experience running production rails apps on these?
Show threadojusaveFeb 6
https://render.com/articles/render-vs-fly-io
Render vs Fly.io

Compare Fly.io vs Render for your next project. Fly.io focuses on edge deployment with VM-level control, while Render balances simplicity with production-grade features like autoscaling, managed databases, and private networking.

Show threadtptacekFeb 7
Honestly, this is super fair. I went in expecting to hate-read it (not because I have any issues with Render, they're great, just these X vs. Y competitive posts). But yeah, I think this is a reasonable way to look at it.
Show threadbearjawsFeb 6

The downfall of Heroku should be studied, they had lightning in a bottle and blew it.

Salesforce acquired them and just let it die, baffling.

Show threadbrightballFeb 6

I remember feeling the same way about Slicehost back in the day after Rackspace acquired them. Loved Slicehost. Not too long after though, Digital Ocean appeared with everything I loved about Slicehost and has kept getting better ever since.

I feel like that's Fly.io now. They took all of the great things about Heroku but also dramatically improved and added new capabilities...while improving on pricing, particularly for lower traffic stuff. Love Fly.

Show threadnicoburnsFeb 6

> They took all of the great things about Heroku but also dramatically improved and added new capabilities

I also love Fly, but they were missing easy managed databases (which always seemed like the main reason to use Heroku to me). And now they have them they're very expensive (even compared to Heroku). Which is a shame because their compute is very cheap.

Show threadtptacekFeb 6

If there was one thing we would all decide differently here at Fly.io, like if you gave us a time machine, is how we did databases. Someday Kurt and I will write the post about how those decisions came to pass and how they played out.

We're doing Managed Postgres now (MPG), which is what we should have done to begin with, but it took us for-ev-er to get here.

Show threadprmphFeb 6
Not sure why people love fly.io over all the other competitors so much. I myself prefer render.com, for the simplicity and predictability of their billing, and their deployment model is so intuitive
Show threadtptacekFeb 7
I think people mostly like the cool balloons Annie draws for us.