I am realizing that I'm probably outgrowing my current Heroku setup for a lot of my personal projects. I would like to find another place to host m...
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I was using Digital Ocean previously. Now I switched to AWS (Route53/CloudFront/S3/Lambda). I try to do as much as possible static websites augmented by some "serverless" functions.
Google App Engine is the best one for deployments . But It won't be cheap .
Amazon Bean Stalk comes next . But not as good as App Engine .
I've tried it . Its simple for deploy .
Advantages of google's App Engine are
Highly Scalable (in case there is a sudden spike in traffic)
Runs many envs(if you have new projects like Erlang or Other languages , Docker it and Run),
Cron Jobs can be accomplished using Cloud Functions
I suggest you to look at this video
You can have servers without public ips and you can set up security groups which can have firewall rules
Heroku is awesome as it is simple but very flexible. AWS is also great but can be quite complex very quickly.
I'm using ssdnodes which offer nice servers.
On my dedicated server for useless things, on Scaleway (which is really great) for more serious one :)