Heroku free plan ending. Alternative?

[rsandzimier]

Heroku’s free plan is ending November 28, 2022. This is going to break many boardgame.io projects that use Heroku. It will also make the boardgame.io documentation/tutorial less accessible, which may lead to fewer new projects using boardgame.io.

Is there any discussion about free alternatives to heroku and updating the documentation accordingly?

[nicolodavis]

fly.io might be a suitable alternative.

If we can get everything to work on a serverless stack then render.com, Vercel and Netlify become options as well.

[Juliano-rb]

I'm planning to use https://render.com the only difference I see until now is build time and time needed to wake up application after it goes to sleep. I'm planning to use firebase to host frontend and render.com to backend in a final release.

Update: unfortunately render.com free plan looks unstable, I'm noticing CORS errors and high latency.

[vdfdev]

There are many alternatives, most cloud providers have free tiers that should be enough to run a bgio server.

Shameless plug, a FOSS alternative is https://github.com/freeboardgames/FreeBoardGames.org, but that operates in a different layer than something like Heroku, as it requires some adaptation to the code/framework.