Very close to the worst alternative for people who actually need Heroku, but it won't stop people from plugging it to death and back.
replyEh, no, depends on why you used Heroku in the first place. Way back when, I used it because the UI was dead simple and it Just Worked™. If I can replicate that with a VPS and have a good UI around it that takes care of everything, it's functionally the same to me.
reply"Depends on what you used it for" applies to just about any platform.
replyRealistically, self-hosting the PaaS defeats the purpose of a PaaS for the crowd Heroku was attracting.
Heroku was one of the first to have that seamless UX, only after which others like Fly or Render or Railway came to copy it. I wager people were primarily attracted to that user experience and only minimally cared that it was fully hosted versus not, because there was also AWS at that time.
replyHow do you think self-hosting affects that seamless UX they value.
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