Not to be rude, but these complaints, minus the "increase" are standard Heroku practice. I see no changes-- in fact, what has changed there, anything?<p>They're finally too expensive for you, or you outgrew them? They aren't cheap, and never have been, especially for hobbyists.<p>If you have a hobby, you most likely have more time than money to complete your hobby, so why, why use something like Heroku? The very nature of your activity is to spend your time, not your money, Heroku is only giving you the feeling of savings until you outgrow their nearly worthless free offering. Now you have to spend your time, moving, configuring, and learning an "entirely new" system. Had you done this the first time, you'd have saved money/time.<p>Yeah... "git push" to deploy is easy[1]-- and if you're new to application development it can be nice, but! It also means you have no idea how to configure or run your app (i.e. deploy). It means you're more vulnerable to your vendors quarterly earnings needs (price hikes), it means you're more vulnerable to vendor technology changes (lock-in), it also means if it ever hits the fan-- you're gonna have oodles of downtime while you learn how to do it "right" the first (nth) time.<p>FWIW, it's actually really easy to run a VPS that's stable once you learn how to do it properly. Don't fear it, mate. I've always found it nice since none of my projects ever get substantial traffic, I can usually run some auxiliary service I need (like Gitlab) on it too. A two for one, eh?<p>... One last thing, if you're running a business Heroku might be the right choice (it's up to you to evaluate the risk/reward).<p>[1] I personally think deploying with Capistrano is a cinch (cap deploy) but it'll take you a lil' bit of effort to set up the first time.