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That post makes a ton of sense honestly. It is a shame but why wouldn’t Salesforce want their branding on it? Check out Vercel, Fly.io, or DigitalOcean dependi

by sjroot 4y ago

That post makes a ton of sense honestly. It is a shame but why wouldn’t Salesforce want their branding on it? Check out Vercel, Fly.io, or DigitalOcean depending on the complexity of the project you’re hoping to deploy.

dpsych 4y ago
Yeah, DigitalOcean is a great alternative. I've been using it for my personal projects for a while now. I think they have a $5/month machine that can do wonders for a hobby project.
- 52-6F-62 4y ago
  They do, I even used that professionally at a previous position. $5-10/mo box with Dokku installed gave us a heroku-ish platform that could be scaled up if needed. The main downside being that you have to manage it yourself, but it really was quite easy for the scale we operated at. Can't speak for larger systems. But if you need a pretty simple, quick-deploy, small-ish-load servicing then it's a breeze. https://dokku.com https://dokku.com
ericskiff 4y ago
https://render.com/ https://render.com/ has been the closest thing to a replacement we've found (we've deployed HUNDREDS of apps to Heroku over the years, so this would be a massive loss for us as well)
- Trufa 4y ago
  render.com has an amazing service, but honestly the deploy time kind of killed us and we're (unfortunately) back to aws.
  - anurag 4y ago
    (Render employee) you were likely on the free tier; deploy speed for paid services is similar to Heroku or faster.
    - fourstar 4y ago
      I suggested you be more clear about this. Seems like you should probably take my advice.
  - memorable 4y ago
    render.com looks decent, but IIRC it's not very straightforward to deploy my website to it. I have then switched to Vercel and happy about it.
adbachman 4y ago
Also shout-out to https://glitch.com/ https://glitch.com/ which puts particular emphasis around community and learning. I use it anytime I'm preparing code for a class, workshop, demo, or open source documentation.
- schleck8 4y ago
  How does one even get a domain like that, seriously
  - bcjordan 4y ago
    Good question, it is some epic internet lore. It was from Stewart Butterfield, founder of Slack. He co-founded a game company Ludocorp in 2002 to create "Game Neverending", then pivoted its photo sharing functionality to become Flickr and sold it to Yahoo in 2005. He then co-founded another game company Tiny Speck in 2009 to create "Glitch", and in 2013 spun out the chat tool the team built while making Glitch to become Slack, which IPO'd in 2019. (Funny enough, one HN commenter sort of called it happening again[0]) I believe Stewart gave (or sold?) the Glitch.com domain to Fog Creek in 2018[1] and the game's site lives on at a new domain [2]. Some discussion from (Fog Creek's) Glitch's launch about the domain name change at [3] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1111863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1111863 [1]: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/841345310655950848 https://twitter.com/anildash/status/841345310655950848 [2]: https://www.glitchthegame.com https://www.glitchthegame.com [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867186
  - mr_spothawk 4y ago
    at one point i spoke to a CEO who had leased a 4-letter .com domain for 2 years for a million of dollar (i don't remember the specific amount) for their startup idea. i imagine there are businesses which facilitate these types of transactions
    - schleck8 4y ago
      That's crazy, do you know what happened to the startup? I imagine losing such a good domain after two years is quite the rocky transition
vampiretooth1 4y ago
+1 for Vercel. Ran my first project on it years ago when they were young and I was stupid. It was so easy to get a front end hosted. I'm still stupid but a lot more experienced now, and still use it for spinning up side projects

by sjroot 4y ago

dpsych 4y ago

Yeah, DigitalOcean is a great alternative. I've been using it for my personal projects for a while now. I think they have a $5/month machine that can do wonders for a hobby project.

52-6F-62 4y ago
They do, I even used that professionally at a previous position. $5-10/mo box with Dokku installed gave us a heroku-ish platform that could be scaled up if needed. The main downside being that you have to manage it yourself, but it really was quite easy for the scale we operated at. Can't speak for larger systems. But if you need a pretty simple, quick-deploy, small-ish-load servicing then it's a breeze. https://dokku.com https://dokku.com

ericskiff 4y ago

https://render.com/ https://render.com/ has been the closest thing to a replacement we've found (we've deployed HUNDREDS of apps to Heroku over the years, so this would be a massive loss for us as well)

Trufa 4y ago
render.com has an amazing service, but honestly the deploy time kind of killed us and we're (unfortunately) back to aws.
- anurag 4y ago
  (Render employee) you were likely on the free tier; deploy speed for paid services is similar to Heroku or faster.
  - fourstar 4y ago
    I suggested you be more clear about this. Seems like you should probably take my advice.
- memorable 4y ago
  render.com looks decent, but IIRC it's not very straightforward to deploy my website to it. I have then switched to Vercel and happy about it.

adbachman 4y ago

Also shout-out to https://glitch.com/ https://glitch.com/ which puts particular emphasis around community and learning. I use it anytime I'm preparing code for a class, workshop, demo, or open source documentation.

schleck8 4y ago
How does one even get a domain like that, seriously
- bcjordan 4y ago
  Good question, it is some epic internet lore. It was from Stewart Butterfield, founder of Slack. He co-founded a game company Ludocorp in 2002 to create "Game Neverending", then pivoted its photo sharing functionality to become Flickr and sold it to Yahoo in 2005. He then co-founded another game company Tiny Speck in 2009 to create "Glitch", and in 2013 spun out the chat tool the team built while making Glitch to become Slack, which IPO'd in 2019. (Funny enough, one HN commenter sort of called it happening again[0]) I believe Stewart gave (or sold?) the Glitch.com domain to Fog Creek in 2018[1] and the game's site lives on at a new domain [2]. Some discussion from (Fog Creek's) Glitch's launch about the domain name change at [3] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1111863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1111863 [1]: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/841345310655950848 https://twitter.com/anildash/status/841345310655950848 [2]: https://www.glitchthegame.com https://www.glitchthegame.com [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13867186
- mr_spothawk 4y ago
  at one point i spoke to a CEO who had leased a 4-letter .com domain for 2 years for a million of dollar (i don't remember the specific amount) for their startup idea. i imagine there are businesses which facilitate these types of transactions
  - schleck8 4y ago
    That's crazy, do you know what happened to the startup? I imagine losing such a good domain after two years is quite the rocky transition

vampiretooth1 4y ago

+1 for Vercel. Ran my first project on it years ago when they were young and I was stupid. It was so easy to get a front end hosted. I'm still stupid but a lot more experienced now, and still use it for spinning up side projects