Heroku alternatives in 2022 for Ruby and Rails application
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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. Source
Alternatives to Heroku for Ruby and Rails application
Fly.io
Fly is a platform for running full stack apps and databases close to your users. We’ve been hammering on this thing since 2017, and we think it’s pretty great.
Free with limits, Pricing
Railway
Railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software.
Paid with trial, Pricing
Render
Render is a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and websites with free TLS certificates, a global CDN, DDoS protection, private networks, and auto deploys from Git.
Free with limits Pricing
Digital Ocean App Platform
Build, deploy, and scale apps quickly using a simple, fully-managed solution. We’ll handle the infrastructure, app runtimes, and dependencies so you can focus on your code and launch your app efficiently.
Start from $5. With $100 from this link to new users → Pricing
- How to's
- How to run a Rails app on DO
Hatchbox
Deploy apps to servers that you own and control. We'll take care of the configuration while you focus on building great apps.
You need a hosting provider. Trial, Pricing
Dokku
Dokku is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server of your choice. Dokku supports building apps on the fly from a git push via either Dockerfile or by auto-detecting the language with Buildpacks, and then starts containers based on your built image.
Free to use on your own server. Paid option Pricing
- How to's
- How to run a Rails app on Dokku
Kuby
Kuby is a convention-over-configuration approach to deploying Rails apps. It makes the power of Docker and Kubernetes accessible to the average Rails developer without requiring a devops black belt.
Free, but you need a hosting provider: Digital Ocean, Linode, Azure, Amazon's EKS
- How to's
- How to deploy Rails app on Kuby
Cloud66
Cloud 66 offers Heroku-like functionality with the flexibility of running on any cloud provider or your own servers.
You need a hosting provider
- How to's
- How to move from Heroku to Cloud 66
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