[appliku]

3 years ago, I tried Heroku and was quite impressed by it. Although the price is prohibitive for a hobby project that needed resources but wasn't generating any revenue, I had to start seeking other options.

Ended up developing my own Heroku but focused on Django deployments.

Three years later, it works like a charm and has many happy folks who thank me for making it.

Meet Appliku: https://appliku.com

[itake]

My main issue is the free redis and cheap postgres instances they provide for my low-traffic app.

[aethrae]

redis and postgres sounds like you could just use render

[itake]

After Heroku's outage, they decided to kill all of their free dynos, redis, and pg! ugh

[itake]

render pricing looks much more competitive. Thanks for the tip!

[appliku]

You can get built databases deployed with Appliku as well. No reason to go broke on a small side project

[itake]

on the same server? Heroku basically gives you 2 free vCPUs to run redis and postgres. If you run pg or redis on the same instance as the app server, then you're still down 2 vCPUs.

[Macha]

I may have some bad news for you...

(Heroku are removing their free tier of everything)