[earthboundkid]

In my experience, if you're not using Heroku, getting a Rails/Django app launched requires at least a day or two dedicated to devops faffing about (creating server instances, setting up CDNs, making sure the database is minimally correct, having some kind of deploy script or something). This won't even get you nice to have things like multiple environments with CI and deploy previews. Switching over to serverless can reduce that to less than one day and get you deploy previews. Is that a good tradeoff? It just depends on the app, and how long lived it will be, what the performance requirements are, the costs of hosting, etc. For my needs, it's often easiest to just use Netlify's AWS Lambda adaptors.

[learc83]

I’m not arguing about setting up your own infrastructure. Heroku launched when rails was 2 years old. What’s the point of this comparison if you arbitrarily handicap the most common rails deployment environment?