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Heroku

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Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

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  • Online
3.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
121likes
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  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Custom DNS
  3.  VPS
  4.  Managed Database Hosting
  5.  Cloud Hosting
  6.  Clojure
  7.  Automated deployment
  8.  Platform as a service

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Heroku information

  • Developed by

    US flagSalesforce
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $7 and $500 per month.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.3
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Heroku, and it has gotten 121 likes

Heroku was added to AlternativeTo by jonhamm on Aug 17, 2011 and this page was last updated Jun 21, 2023.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
anacrolix
Jun 30, 2018
2

It's a solid platform, and much better designed than GAE and others. It's just very expensive.

Top Negative Comment
Michael
Nov 27, 2021
0

Heroku has, without prior, notice, shut down my production-ready platform, with a very short notice that it violated their acceptable-use policy (without any further explanations). The platform is down, I have no access to data, and I am very happy that this happened shortly before the public release, not after.

anacrolix
Jun 30, 2018
1

Great platform but insanely expensive.

Odion Ohio
Apr 27, 2018
0

Amazing PAAS with great support and documentations to help

What is Heroku?

Heroku is a cloud application platform for Ruby, Rails, Node.js, Java, Python, Scala and Clojure web apps. Everything you need to build, run, and scale:

Dynos: Run virtually any language at any scale.

Database: Enterprise-grade Postgres as a service.

Elements: Marketplace of tools, components and services for your app.

Heroku Connect: Seamlessly integrate and sync with Salesforce.

Heroku provides services and tools to build, run and scale web apps. We enable flow—for developers to focus on the design and craft of compelling apps.

Powerful platform built by developers for developers that let you focus on building great apps.

Build and Run Your Apps, Your Way.

Heroku supports Ruby, Node.js, Python, Java, Go and PHP so you can use the languages you already know to build and deploy apps on Heroku.

Build: Once you push your application source code, Heroku prepares it for execution by retrieving the necessary dependencies specific to the frameworks and languages you use in your app. Heroku supports Ruby, Node.js, Python, Java, Go and PHP by default, but you can also choose another language by using a custom buildback.

Config: Heroku lets you manage environment-specific configurations (such as credentials for backing services) separately from your source code for greater safety and portability. In Heroku, this data can be managed with config vars, which are made available to your running application as simple environment variables.

Run: Sometimes you want to run one-off dynos on your app—run a script in your app's environment, use your app's console, etc. Using heroku run, you can quickly spin up a one-off instance of your app environment to run ad-hoc commands.

Add the Power of Heroku Elements to Your App

Heroku Elements are tools, components and services for adding functionality to your app. Heroku Elements include Add-ons, Buildpacks and Buttons.

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