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

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Amandeep Singh

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