Heroku Is Dead, Here's What I Recommend

The death of Heroku does not mean the death of your hobby projects!!! There are SO MANY great solutions for full stack web development

Links to some of my favs:

THANK YOU IDEZ AND MIR FOR THE EDIT

[victornwanguma]

Heroku was good for startups and MVPs. When startups hit production and start making profit, they begin to scale and purchase more services on their platform (Heroku). Honestly I thought this was their business model, if not they are messing up badly

[DarrenCorbett_FTW]

Easily the most helpful video I've ever seen on YouTube. Always good content, but this one is pure gold. Thank you

[josemonge]

Great tips! Definitely considering Planetscale and Railway. Those had definitely pulled my interest for what I'm building.

[froxx]

I just found out about Heroku 2 days ago and noticed they are removing their free tier.
I'm deploying all of my frontends on Vercel anyway, but I needed a solution for hosting a Strapi instance which is not so easy on Vercel.
So this video comes just in time. Thanks Theo, helpful as always!

[TheIpicon]

man, I'm watching you for quite a while now. you're very authentic and interesting, I never skip one of your videos and I'm really grateful to get all this knowledge for free.
I took my company an boost jumped it a couple of levels with the t3 stack!
We're using next with trpc, prisma with planetscale on vercel.
thank you! I don't remember when I enjoyed developing this much.

[workflowinmind]

This quickly became my favorite web dev channel (with web dev simplified)! I really love the pace, the tone, the insights!
Thanks Theo

[ccj]

To put into perspective how far gone Heroku is, I used it for years to learn and to prototype ideas. After they dropped the free tier AND had a security incident in the same year, I did everything i could to migrate a current production app that I’m building to AWS. I don’t think I’m ever going back. End of an era tbh.

[john_hawley]

will always be digital ocean fan. their blog content has saved my ass on more than 30 occasions — deploy an open source container management server for $5/mo and deploy container after container to f**k around with and learn, awesome.

[timothypark]

Started mainly with frontend development and recently dipping my toe into the backend using the MERN stack. I was so naive just trying to deploy my server and client files all into vercel. Came across Heroku but their free their plan was gone. Wasted something a little more cheaper and then came across your channel! Gotta try out railway :D thanks for this video!

[skdic]

Just yesterday I was talking with a friend about where to host databases/websites/etc. This helped a lot, thanks!

[akira_asahi]

Thank you for the video. I am grateful for your time and contribution. Kind regards, Akira.

[tabili]

Very underrated channel, it became my favorite channel in couple weeks. Thanks Theo! We appreciate you!

[leoMC]

Great content, man. I'm already using Vercel for my APIs and MongoDB (free tier) for my databases. But still I need a free SQL hosting. Thank you very much. 👏👏👏

[benpleysier]

Tried Railway for the first time today. Created a Node/Express/SQLite project, created a repository, and Railway did the rest. Database costs are nihil because of SQLite. Very impressed by how easy it was to set up. Only downfall for me is the location of the server - west coast USA to Down Under.. Hope this will improve in the coming year.

[Hacking-NASSA-with-HTML]

RIP Heroku, we will miss you😥. Still we have a Netlify❤

[marcalgomezlavall]

I really like how you explain things, I've spent 3 days trying to understand the differences between some of the companies you mention, and your opinionated point of view is really helpful

[crustydev]

I have a feeling that some of these free tiers won't last too long in this economy

[luasluckas]

Wow! Thanks man, really helpful content!

[MrVargasesteban]

Thanks Theo! This is the best explanation of the landscape that I've seen.

[npc-drew]

500 MB RAM + 8 vCPU:
Heroku = $7
Railway = $165

1 GB RAM + 1 vCPU:
DigitalOcean = $6
Railway = $30

The above is true supposing you use 100% of the resources constantly for the entire month. While for most people, that won't be the case, I rather pay $5-10 a month max than saving that same money and pray my service don't grow cause it can get out of hands.

The 8 vCPU come handy in Heroku for high traffic services, in my tests, Heroku was able to handle 10-15x more traffic than DigitalOcean. The clear limitation is the low RAM memory as you have to run a light service, or one that uses a lot of third parties APIs.