Heroku, Now.sh, Netlify. What are you using and why?

I know ZEIT since 2017, I have seen its products evolve, documentation etc. I can give a totally honest opinion of ZEIT : )

2017 & 2018 (until the middle of the year) a container-based approach

Pros:

• Really everything was through a single command

Cons:

• the documentation was not so clear
• you pay much more
• not so scalable
• waiting times were long

2018 (October) - It's time Serverless <3

pros:

• the application can scale automatically
• pay on-deman
• the documentation improved a lot 😎
• the guides created by the community are being promoted
• integration GitHub and GitLab
• access to your app without any waiting time (thank to builder of ▲now)
• a community in spectrum
• excellent customer support

Cons:

• now.json, It is necessary to define it when you want to implement an application of node but very soon it will not be necessary to define now.json. You will only have to execute the now command and that's it 😍

I hope I have helped 🙏

I have used all ZEIT Now, Heroku, Netlify and Google Firebase. All have features which are unique to their platform, and no one is going to stop making the developer experience better anytime soon, which is extremely good for us all.

I have stuck with ZEIT Now as their developer experience outshines the competitors in more than many use cases. Here are some outshiners:

• Support for many languages and that even in the same repo
• Ability to make deployments from command line without adding any configuration for most use cases
• Just hit ‘now’ from command-line without any required configuration, and boom, deployment is ready
• Generous free tier along with super pocket friendly paid plan
• Auto scaling deployments
• Best performance - Best time waking up from cold boot; and further less time for subsequent requests
• Every pull request creates a new deployment on Github; super easy to review changes iteratively, and ability to test deployement of codebase at any point in time as all check-ins create a new url

and if that is already not enough, here is the best one:

• super talented, down to earth team, who works closely with community on their Slack education channel

Netlify for a couple sites and then a raspberry pi 3b+ for light node projects

We use Zeit for CSSBattle for our web app deployment. Super easy. Super fast. And amazing features like aliases. We also did a case study with Zeit -> zeit.co/case-studies/cssbattle

Finally tried heroku for a node server the other day. I was blown away how easy it was. I setup the server on my local machine. Signed up, installed the heroku cli, and ran 2 commands. 1 minute later and I had a url to my node server in the cloud. I waited so long to try it because I thought it would be complicated, but it was super easy

I use both Heroku and Netlify.

Heroku for microservices with Node.js/Express.

Netlify to host my static website built with Jekyll.

I host my personal blog on Netlify cause I don't need to spend tons of time in deploying and it's really pain-free for me whenever I complete an article.

It takes advantage of CI/CD to help me deploy my newly created articles.

Netlify for front-end, because it's so easy to set up. It's also easy to proxy any backend needs elsewhere via redirects.

I use Serverless Framework and AWS for backend because of its low cost while having flexibility to add more (also low cost) services (e.g DynamoDB).

Use Netlify with their CMS to deploy Gatsby blog

Netlify for static sites. Absolutely love how easy it is. And deploy straight from git is just 🤩. I wish there was a solution like this for some of our php sites 😢.