I remember I used Heroku a lot when I was working on side / client projects for Ruby on Rails and Django at school. It’s the easiest and the best PaaS (Platform as a Service) for the web applications. Plus, it was a great way to learn how to deploy your project on the Internet without any charge. Because of that reason, you easily saw Heroku was included in online training materials for the web development. I am pretty sure lots of learners thanked Heroku providing such a great service for free.
Heroku is now excited to move on the next chapter. Sadly, that affected the free plan which is no longer available. The price isn’t actually that bad for an entry level (light usage). But it could be huge if your business scale is big.
Employer: if you’ve been using it and really liking it so far then you can probably decide whether keep your business or move to other platform after discussing the expected fee with your developers.
Individual: you’ve been exploring or using it for your side projects then you could pay for an entry plan (Dynos Eco) or try some other platforms. There are some good alternatives here — some limits applied depending on the platform.
- Railway
- Render
- Fly
- Northflank
- Qoddi
- Koyeb
Personally, Heroku meant a lot to me. When I was a student, I worked on one of my side projects with Heroku and I got an offer after a technical interview with the project.
I wish Heroku well in whatever it chooses to do next.
