Comment by swyx
20 hours ago
> We spent the winter prototyping (experimenting with everything from bare metal to alternative PaaS providers — some of which shall remain unnamed to protect the guilty
mind at least naming what to look out for when evaluating PaaSes?
For us it was a performance issue. We load tested DBs and servers with our real app and found out Heroku (notoriously known for being stuck in 2010) performed better then some more recent competitor.
very nice! i like seeing Heroku and Digital Ocean hang in there and win