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?
Latest comments (43)
Render, fly.io...
I've started using render as an alternative to heroku and I found it too helpful and good for Seniors and Beginners .
render.com/ it is pretty good
Sad to see this happen
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 😊
How to Set Up Your Own Heroku-like Cloud (PAAS) in 10 Minutes
When building new projects, it’s usually annoying to repeatedly set up stuff like web servers, databases, etc. It’s often expensive or tedious to set up and manage. That’s where open-source PAASs came in. They are free and often have an easy to use app/database deployment & web server manager.
paulonteri.com/thoughts/how-to/set...
Thanks I’ll check it out 👍
Here are a few alternatives to Heroku: herokualternatives.com/
Thanks for listing these! I would need to check some of them though. I think they often offer one of the services rather than the whole bundle.
AWS is great but each service is almost something on its own. Never tried Elastic Beanstalk
Does anyone know where I can host my php website for free?
Netlify too unfortunately is turning paid for closed source projects
Glitch has got to be one of the best options.