Deciding Between Heroku Alternatives
Platforms that make shipping web apps easier have given us plenty of options to deploy and run applications in the cloud. A Platform as a Service (PaaS) abstracts away the complexity of infrastructure management, giving you ready-to-go infrastructure at a markup, a tradeoff from managing the underlying infrastructure at a lower cost.
If you’re here, you probably already know what a PaaS is, and you’re probably already familiar with Heroku. In recent years some Heroku alternatives have come into the market that might make you wonder, is it still the best option?
By the end of this, you’ll have a better idea of how each Heroku alternative compares not just to Heroku but to each other. We’ll dig into Heroku, Railway, Render, and Fly. We’re focusing on production deployments and the nuances that matter when running production workloads for plenty of users, so if you’re a hobby developer looking for the best free plan, you won’t find this super helpful.
Whether you’re considering a migration from Heroku or evaluating options for a new project, this article will help you decide - not by listing through features, but by contrasting the unique characteristics of each PaaS option.
