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Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server

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804 points jryio | 3 comments | 21 Oct 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bilsbie ◴[21 Oct 25 23:49 UTC] No.45663244[source]▶
What’s the best alternative to heroku today for someone that doesn’t want to do any sysadmin and just dump a Django site and database somewhere?
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1. evantbyrne ◴[22 Oct 25 00:47 UTC] No.45663691[source]▶
It is worth learning to use Docker Swarm. Deployments are as simple as pushing a new container to your registry and running one command. I built a free CLI tool rove.dev that simplifies provisioning and does service diffing.

Either that or use a PaaS that deploys to VMs. Can't make recommendations here but you could start by looking at Semaphore, Dokku, Dokploy.

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2. sebnun ◴[22 Oct 25 05:19 UTC] No.45665139[source]▶
I'm looking for simple k8s alternatives like docker swarm and kamal. Rove looks really interesting.
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3. evantbyrne ◴[22 Oct 25 14:11 UTC] No.45669465[source]▶
Definitely check out swarm. I've heard so many great things from engineers that use it on large projects, and it takes very little time to learn if you already know the docker cli.