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by appliku 1400 days ago
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

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My main issue is the free redis and cheap postgres instances they provide for my low-traffic app.
redis and postgres sounds like you could just use render
After Heroku's outage, they decided to kill all of their free dynos, redis, and pg! ugh
render pricing looks much more competitive. Thanks for the tip!
You can get built databases deployed with Appliku as well. No reason to go broke on a small side project
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.
I may have some bad news for you...

(Heroku are removing their free tier of everything)