[rubyist5eva]

So this is more of a sales pitch for Porter - which is fine, I didn't know it existed and these are pretty compelling reasons to try it instead of Heroku.

For me - the real selling point is that yes, Heroku is expensive - but the cost of a competent devops engineer is much, much, much higher. So unless it's literally impossible to do something with Heroku that needs a specialized skillset - the "devops as a service" part of Heroku is worth every penny in my opinion.

[ajhurliman]

Agreed. We have a small number of high value users so we’re actually running on the smallest non-free tier (mostly to avoid cold starts) with almost zero head aches. It’s like $15 a month.

The only frustration we’ve hit was mentioned in the article: static IP for integration with 3rd party services (VGS), but we used an add-on and I think we’re still in the free tier, or it’s a few dollars a month.

The cost? We were actually spending more on GCP due to ham fisted provisioning, plus a $150k dev ops guy. So ya, I’m pretty happy about the cost.