What to do now that Heroku is shutting down its Free plans?

[bryanus]

All good things must come to an end I suppose!

On Nov 28, 2022, Heroku will be ending its free Dynos plans:

https://blog.heroku.com/next-chapter#:~:text=Starting%20October%2026,to%20affected%20users.

Are there any other 'free' alternatives to deploying errbit? ATM, I'm thinking about trying to get it running in an AWS instance, but am also wondering if errbit will be updated to better support deployments outside of Heroku. Where are the rest of you going?

[2called-chaos]

Usually you have to do extra stuff to make it work nicely with Heroku and its assumptions not the other way around. With better support do you mean things like the "deploy to heroku" button? I'm a bare metal person myself so I'm not quite familiar as to what AWS, etc. has to offer in terms of one-click installations.

At the end errbit has a docker image/file so deployment to everything docker compatible should be fairly straight forward. Or any *nix machine with a working git, Ruby and MongoDB.

As to free alternatives I'm not aware of much. I suppose MongoDB Atlas has a free plan for the database part which is already noted in the Heroku deployment doc as presumably Heroku didn't have free MongoDB but I'm not aware of an alternative for Rails apps (especially with some sort of reputable name behind it)