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We built a Heroku alternative made for developers with fair pricing

39 pointsby alexflashdriveabout 4 years ago
Hi Everyone!<p>We made https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flashdrive.io an app hosting platform made to be a consistent alternative to Heroku with developer-friendly features and pricing.<p>Flashdrive.io is compatible with Git and support automatic deployments, DockerFile, and DockerHub, and includes everything you need to have a scalable and reliable app : load balancer, vertical and horizontal scaling, daily backups, SSL certificates. All features are included, we do not believe in overages for mandatory functions (who doesn&#x27;t need backups or SSL those days!!).<p>We also have a marketplace with prebuilt images including NGINX (for static sites), Wordpress, Ghost, PostHog, Hasura etc...<p>I would love to appreciate your feedback on the project, we offer $100 free credits (no credit card needed) and I&#x27;ll be more than happy to double it if you send me an email (alex @ flashdrive.io).<p>Thanks! Alex. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flashdrive.io

8 comments

shooabout 4 years ago
Seems like misbehavior by one of FlashDrive&#x27;s tenants can degrade experience for other tenants:<p>&gt; FlashDrive’s containers can be used to send emails but the architecture of FlashDrive uses a single IP address by datacenter to provide ultra high redundancy. Since this IP is advertised by any container using FlashDrive inside the same datacenter it’s highly possible that this IP will be blacklisted pretty quickly by any major email provider. For that reason we don’t recommend the use of FlashDrive’s architecture to send emails.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devcenter.flashdrive.io&#x2F;can-i-send-emails-with-flashdrives-containers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devcenter.flashdrive.io&#x2F;can-i-send-emails-with-flash...</a><p>&gt; We are working on a solution to associate a dedicated static IP to an app for a little additional monthly fee and we will release this solution shortly.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devcenter.flashdrive.io&#x2F;why-is-my-apps-ip-blocked-by-third-parties&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devcenter.flashdrive.io&#x2F;why-is-my-apps-ip-blocked-by...</a><p>Are there other aspects of the architecture where tenants are not isolated from each other?
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jfengelabout 4 years ago
Are you saying that Heroku&#x27;s pricing is unfair? How so? Or are you saying that you have an alternative for the sake of diversity, which also has fair pricing?
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mraza007about 4 years ago
The product looks very promising as someone who has been hosting flask projects on heroku I think its totally worth trying flashdrive and the pricing is just perfect in my opinion.<p>I&#x27;m just curious lets say you host a small service and pay $3&#x2F;per month what if the usage of the app increases does that mean I&#x27;ll be charged more than $3 dollars if I am on the dev plan
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craftomanabout 4 years ago
Great work! Every time I stumble upon such PaaS services I&#x27;m getting hyped until paranoid slap my face. How can anyone trust anything, these days servers can be hacked easily and besides what user&#x27;s codebases can be accessed by the provider&#x27;s employees or another third party company.
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repartixabout 4 years ago
I wish the front page showed what I need to do to use it, without having to click or scroll anywhere.
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SRO1about 4 years ago
I waited a long time for something like that...
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khanraisa124about 4 years ago
you should find another name...
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sumon5660about 4 years ago
Good
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