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by jazzyjackson 1156 days ago
Assuming they wanted a webserver + database and wanted to learn web stuff, not server admin / unix stuff to configure a LAMP stack or whathaveyou + certbot etc. Deploying on your own domain of legitimately daunting without a lot of prerequisite knowledge. Heroku automated a lot of that and some people learned it as the only way to deploy without learning the manual process first, and that's fine IMO.