<story><title>A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting costs down</title><url>https://github.com/githubsaturn/captainduckduck</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>This, Dokku, Flynn, that 1000+ line bash&amp;#x2F;chef&amp;#x2F;ansible script that the guy who used to do your job before he left are all legitimate solutions for deploying apps (and all better than FTP&amp;#x27;ing up whatever the developer happens to have on their laptop).&lt;p&gt;But, I feel like the comparison to Heroku isn&amp;#x27;t great.&lt;p&gt;Heroku saves you from having to do and worry about significant amounts of (I would argue) extremely important admin and security work.&lt;p&gt;How are datastore backups handled in this scenario? How do you handle updating redundancy? Can you in a couple clicks add a secure Postgres, MongoDB, Memcached or Redis server to your app? Setup CI?&lt;p&gt;Or even just secure these things properly. This stuff gets complex and it&amp;#x27;s extremely easy to accidently set up something that&amp;#x27;s much more open to the world than you would want.&lt;p&gt;To sum up:&lt;p&gt;Heroku -&amp;gt; A way for developers to put up much more robust sites than they could otherwise.&lt;p&gt;Scripted Setups -&amp;gt; a (very positive and cool thing) for those with devops&amp;#x2F;sysadmin skills to more rapidly setup a site.&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure: I do a lot of work in the Heroku ecosystem and could well be defending the platform out of greed. But, I&amp;#x27;ve also seen first hand some of the wild misconceptions and mistakes that were caught by the built in systems and limits to the platform.</text></comment>
<story><title>A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting costs down</title><url>https://github.com/githubsaturn/captainduckduck</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gitgud</author><text>Well, Dokku [1] is already a good solution to the heroku cost problem. All the power and convenience of heroku commands with the freedom and low cost of docker deployment. It has lets-encrypt ssl support too!&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dokku&amp;#x2F;dokku&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;dokku&amp;#x2F;dokku&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>