DigitalOcean App Platform

I am so glad to see this. I was looking to deploy an app and the choice is either Heroku or manage your own server which I don't want to do.

Heroku gives instant deployment for the most common types of apps (python/java/ruby). It's PaaS done right, it's fantastic. You should really have a look if you're not aware of it, it's only $7 for a starter app.

Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which makes it a dead end for anything non trivial. You're forced to go to digital ocean / Linode / OVH instead to have something affordable.

That leaves Digital Ocean as the only alternative (don't trust Linode) and it sucks because it only gives me a server to manage. I don't want to manage a server I want to run a (python) application. It's 2020 this sort of things should auto deploy from GitHub without bothering me to manage an operating system.

You shouldn’t trust Digital Ocean, either. They’ve a history of being shady liars about platform security.

https://github.com/fog/fog/issues/2525

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983097

I read that thread, it's quite concerning. Now I'm wondering how to determine if other providers are doing the same thing. I suppose I can test on a new instance, but that can only tell me definitively if they are doing it, not if they're not.