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Ask HN: Why does nearly every Ruby on rails tutorial/book ask to use Heroku?

by arromatic on 9/30/24, 6:23 PM with 5 comments

• by padseeker on 9/30/24, 6:48 PM

  Heroku is the OG of affordable rails hosting. If the tutorial is older than 3-4 years ago then it was published when Heroku was free, which it no longer is.

  There are lots of other affordable, but probably not free, options now;

  https://railway.app/ https://fly.io/ https://www.hetzner.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://render.com/