According to the latest announcement from heroku Inc. All the free dynos and free data will no longer be available after November 28 2022. This announcement can be mind blowing for any developer with apps hosted in heroku... But it is what it is and we need to find some alternatives as soon as possible... Thats what I'm going to tackle today. Without further to do. Lets start with the first alternative out there

1. Railway

Railway is a simple and powerful deployment platform. It's quite similar to heroku they have:

• GitHub repo deployments
• CLI tooling
• Built-in databases

Features

1. Speedy quick builds and performant web app

2. Multiple language support (languages like Crystal, Elixir, and .NET)

3. They offer PR deploys, variable management, rapid builds, and local development flows.

And much more...

2. Render

Render is a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and websites with free TLS certificates, a global CDN, DDoS protection, private networks, and auto deploys from Git.

Features

1. Flexible:

Render allows responses to take up to 100 minutes for HTTP requests. Heroku has a hard response timeout of 30 seconds and it can not be configured or changed.

2. Performance and Reliability

Heroku applications are forcefully restarted every 24 hours, losing in-memory state (e.g. caches) and disrupting websocket connections. Heroku application restarts can also create downtime, and avoiding them requires signing up for more expensive plans. In contrast, Render does not have scheduled (or unscheduled) restarts, and every Render application comes with zero downtime deploys. Applications hosted on Heroku have no way to self-heal; Render lets you define custom HTTP health check paths for your services and automatically restarts unresponsive apps.

3. Developer Experience

Heroku is easy to use compared to AWS, but our customers tell us Render is even easier. Simply connect your GitHub or GitLab repository on your Render Dashboard and the platform auto-suggests commands to build and start your app. Once deployed, every Git push automatically builds and updates your app.