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by cyberax 745 days ago
I'm working in a new startup, and I tried several "easy" solutions: AWS Lightsail, Heroku, Crunchy.

I settled up on AWS ECS :)

My main issue with Heroku was that they have not changed anything in _years_. No support for gRPC, no IPv6, and simple VPC peering costs $1200 a month.

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Yeah, the lack of HTTP/2 support has been a long-standing issue with Heroku.

They just shipped HTTP/2 terminated at their router [0], and have it on their roadmap [1] to support HTTP/2 all the way through. But it seems like it's at minimum a few months off.

(As for VPC peering: the moment you need that, it sorta feels like Heroku is no longer the right place to be, even ignoring the costs.)

[0] https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-http2-public-beta [1] https://github.com/orgs/heroku/projects/130

They just shipped it, but it's still beta. So... I wouldn't consider that shipped yet.