[benmartin]

Oh there are numerous alternatives to Heroku. Just look for "PaaS" and your favourite software components (programming language, DB, CDN etc) and you'll find a list. I find Platform.sh is an excellent alternative to Heroku, dare I say better. Same thing - configure once and operate forever, scale as you need... Really Heroku used to be a big name but it is now declining, and lets face it - many used it just because it had a tiny plan for free.