If you are a developer, you might have used or heard of Heroku.
Heroku is a cloud programming platform designed to help build and deploy online applications.
Founded in 2007, it is now one of the largest PaaS platforms in existence, with hundreds of thousands of customers spread around the world.
It supports six programming languages (through which to develop apps for distribution on the Web) and is based on the Debian operating system or, more recently, Ubuntu (two Linux distributions).
Goodbye Heroku
According to a recent update, "Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users".
Why is this a pity?
Because many people/students/dev have their first experience with deploying an application on Heroku!
And to be honest, the quality of the environment was pretty good, even in terms of analytics.
What's next?
I am sure many will move to other platforms to deploy their apps. Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages are all good options.
Do you know more?
Top comments (43)
Here's a great Github repo I was shown recently that could help you.
There's a webhosting section that gives some great options as replacements.
github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev#...
Thanks! I need to spend some time on this! Quite some stuff 🥳
Good share, thank you
Thanks for sharing this amazing info i really appreciate
thanks for puting all this together.
This wasn't me, I was told about it
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Interesting! Thanks for sharing:)
Cool. Thanks for this link.
Give Adaptable.io a try. It's easier to use than Heroku and the free tier includes your database (Postgres or MongoDB).
Never heard of it! Thanks for sharing! I’ll give it a try!
hey, Lorenzo!
3 years ago, I started working on a Heroku alternative.
A Heroku alternative deployment service that uses your cloud server from any provider to run your apps.
appliku.com/
The primary focus is on Python/Django but also runs node apps.
I posted the story here a while ago: dev.to/kostjapalovic/tired-of-depl....
I knew about the inactivating of accounts, but i guess i missed that part about free dyno time. That free dyno time was perfect for quick staging of applications for testing. Not to mention a great place for Rubyists.
I mean pay as you go im sure will still be around, but thats still ops maintenance to remember to cycle up/down. /rollEyes
Yep. "But just go to [insert platform here] it starts as low as 99$ for a chunk of time and data that will be sure to change every 2 months" ...(there is no emoji committing suicide but imagine him here)
Ahahah nailed it!
Hey Lorenzo, have you checked fly.io? I didn't see it listed below and the free tier is enough for a single Heroku app with it's database.
Their approach is focused on deploying your code on multiple locations to process requests closest to your users, but just deploying a single server like DigitalOcean+Dokku works just fine.
I migrated some of my old projects over there and I like it a lot. I hope it helps!
Thanks! I didn’t know about it! I’ll check it out 😊
Keyword "students".
When I just started learning back-end development, Heroku was the first PaaS I encountered. I was excited it was free and I could try it out immediately along with the tutorial I was watching.
It was great while it lasted.
qoddi.com is compatible with most of Heroku's buildpacks. We wrote a guide to help with the migration: dev.to/qoddiapps/migration-guide-h...
eu.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/ is the good option for the python web apps. Its backed by Anaconda
Glitch has got to be one of the best options.