Cheaper Heroku alternatives for Rails apps?
I want something like Heroku but that is cheaper. My stack is a Rails app + 1 Postgres instance.
I know render.com and fly.io. Do you have any to recommend between these? Any other suggestions?
Besides pricing, I also want it to be as easy to set up as Heroku (or more).
EDIT: I just discovered there's also DigitalOcean's Apps. Anyone has any experience to share? Maybe it's worth considering since I'm already a paying DO customer.
Thanks!
If you want to do it yourself, checkout Sailor[0].
Sailor is a tiny PaaS to install on your servers/VPS that uses git push to deploy micro-apps, micro-services, sites with SSL, on your own servers or VPS
[0] https://github.com/mardix/sailor
Have been using render for about 2 months now and it’s been good so far. Originally migrated from heroku as well.
I really like using their blueprint setup and there is a nice sense of rapid iteration on their product with a public roadmap. Definitely worth giving a try.
We evaluated render, fly, and digitalocean app platform. Went for the last one. It's mostly fine, the main issue is if you need to customize the app.yaml and then update any UI setting, it will overwrite the customizations. They're aware of it and are working on fixing. Ideally I wish we could store the app.yaml in our app repo itself and have it version controlled as well.
Use render.com they are fairly priced and will let you get the devops out of the way very quickly. Very happy customer here.
dokku.
It's incredible.
You can easily run multiple apps in any language on dokku.
We're currently trailing Cloud 66 (cloud66.com) and are happy with it so far
Check Caprover, should be pretty easy if you've docker setup for rails app.
my experience with scalingo has been really good. they're basically a heroku clone with servers in France and cost about a third less, with great uptime and support.
Check out AWS AppRunner or Google Cloud Run. Not sure if Ruby is supported or not