[Towaway69]

My personal take is that I'd rather work with heroku than dealing with aws or gcs.

Sure there are others out there that provide the same easy of use, I am just too lazy to switch ;)

OTOH I've never had them wipe a database on me, so I guess that would be the motivation to move on.

[xp84]

> I've never had them wipe a database on me,

Give it time, apparently ;)

If you're like me and are really into ease of use, I really endorse Digital Ocean. People don't seem to use it in Big Important Companies, but I never had a problem with anything I hosted there when I was my last, medium-sized company, and everything was so easy to manage in the GUI without having to learn proprietary APIs and whole stacks of infrastructure-as-code stuff like in AWS land.

[Towaway69]

DO is also good and less restrictive for a new user than aws (I.e. getting more resources). I remember having to beg to get more than 1(or 2) servers at aws as a new user.

I haven't looked recently but does DO have the heroku click to add resources and git push to deploy offerings?

[xp84]

I think this product is the closest: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform

[gwbas1c]

> OTOH I've never had them wipe a database on me, so I guess that would be the motivation to move on.

About a year ago they shut down my personal blog based on a vague "violation of our terms." There was no violation, either. (I suspect they had to shut down phishing and other abusive sites, and cast a little too wide of a net.)

When they claimed they turned it back on, I had to keep pestering them because they goofed something or other. Eventually I couldn't push updates via Github. (I wrote the blog engine as an exercise to learn NodeJS.)

Again, if I could have bought an ultra-cheap tier, I would have been happy to pay.