[ab-dm]

Heroku is a god send for getting off the ground, however the biggest issue for us hasn’t been cost (it’s high, but worth every cent) it’s been server location.

We’re an Aussie company, and a large percentage of our customers are in Australia. Having servers only in the US and Europe mean that Australian customers speeds are slower than they should be, and private spaces are far too expensive to warrant it.

[aclatuts]

I have started using google cloud run as a drop in replacement for Heroku.

It has almost all the same features and runs at almost any GCP location.

[ornornor]

What about databases? One of the appeals of heroku is that you get databases as a service and don’t have to worry about backups, snapshots, etc.

[tampatrev]

You can use Aiven.io for the database as a service piece.