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Explore alternatives to Heroku for streamlit app hosting
Heroku is discontinuing the free plan by the end of November 2022. The next most economic plan, which seems to be Eco, starts at 5$ per month, which for a low traffic application such as our streamlit app is not perfect.
Explore alternatives to Heroku that can adapt better to the needs of the app. Options are
| Name | Docker support | Elastic pricing | AWS Ireland | Custom domains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heroku Eco | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Heroku Basic 🏆 | Yes | Yes? | Yes | Yes |
| Cyclic | No | - | - | |
| Render | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Railway | Yes | Yes | ? | |
| Deta | No | - | - | |
| Fly.io | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Porter | ||||
| Clever Cloud |
Documentation on heroku website is unclear on whether Heroku Basic
- Is the cost up to 7$ a month, but it it can be less depending on usage?
- Is scale-down to zero available for Basic plan? If the two above are true, basic/hobby dynos may be a good enough, and we don't need to migrate. It's worth testing it.
Is scale-down to zero available for Basic plan?
This is unfortunately not true, hence the basic plan is not an option.
Currently exploring Railway.app
Railway.app exploration failed: it turns out that Railway.app is based in aws apprunner, on which streamlit does not seem to work.
Have you considered using PythonAnywhere? It's owned by Anaconda Inc but they have a commitment to maintaining the Free Tier.
https://www.pythonanywhere.com/
Have you considered using PythonAnywhere? It's owned by Anaconda Inc but they have a commitment to maintaining the Free Tier.
https://www.pythonanywhere.com/
@namtonthat I hadn't. I'll definitely take a look.