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6 Myths About Heroku, Debunked

Nočnica Mellifera on May 10, 2019

When it comes to Heroku, misconceptions and myths abound. Many people know a little about Heroku, they’ve heard that it’s easy to use or that it’s ...
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Yaser Al-Najjar

Non-myth: Heroku is expensive (5x more than a small digital ocean server). 😁

Though, I do love Heroku for developing and testing stuff.

Nice write up 👍

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stereobooster

reliable, cheap, convenient - select two

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Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴

They are different things. Heroku sells a plataform, whilst Digital Ocean sells infra.

DO is cheaper because you have to do more work which Heroku saves you from doing(making it expensive).

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Tiago Celestino

Agree!!!

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Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴

Just until recently I realized how excellent is Heroku Dev Center. Many years using Heroku and many doubts and issues got solved just by reading an article or docs in the Dev Center.

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Vicente G. Reyes

Is there a way I can point the myapp.heroku.com to my own domain?

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Adam Luzsi