I love services like this, but I am super weary to adopt them, particularly after Now v1's deprecation. It's kind of difficult to run a stable production application when your Platform-as-a-Service provider announced major breaking changes-- aka killing docker, and forcing me to rewrite my application in serverless lambdas (which doesn't work for all use cases, like web sockets).<p>It killed the category in my mind, it isn't even your fault. I now feel far more comfortable running on bread-and-butter tools, like AWS/GCP/Azure with Kubernetes. The overhead sucks, but at least I can plan for things better than I can when hosting with fast-moving PaaS providers.<p>Hosting is too important of a problem to wholly outsource entirely to a PaaS platform if it's subject to shuffling at a rate I can't control (exception: personal projects with no real availability expectations). That's the double edged sword with platforms like these. They let you get your application online rapidly, but you could be subject to unforeseen technical debt at the hosting provider's will. I learned (the hard way) that I'm not a fan on managing risk under those terms.
Great project!<p>There's a typo in your docs, first line below "Source Code", it says "maneer" instead of "manner".<p>I'm curious how your projects are doing finally. Would you mind sharing? Maybe even via an open dashboard like Buffer and Ghost are doing?<p>I hope you're either doing good already or will do soon!
I think I’m a target audience for something like this. I created a web app that uses Postgres and hosted it with elastic beanstalk. It was about $50/month so I took it down. $3/month is much more reasonable for my needs
Looks like a managed caprover.com :-)<p>Is there a way to store immutable files (something similar to S3)?<p>Is the filesystem available and persistent?<p>Regarding PostgreSQL and other databases, do you backup the WAL? (DigitalOcean Managed Databases backups the WAL every 5 minutes.)
The lowest price is quite attractive to people who run an app on a $5 VPS (although there are some < $5 / vps out there). $5 VPS vs $3 PaaS, Kinda good market positioning!<p>Would be nice if you support Elixir (you don't have to, maybe it's not worth it since demand would not be high)
Nice, I have always been wondering why Heroku don't work with other Infrastructure provider on cheaper alternatives at the low to Mid end price range.<p>Congrats on launching.
Another viable alternative is OpsCaptain.
<a href="https://www.opscaptain.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.opscaptain.com/</a>
Congrats on launching.<p>Unfortunately after the parse.com fiasco I have vowed to never again use a PaaS/BaaS service again for important deployments.