Heroku

Build, deploy, and scale applications on a fully managed cloud platform

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Category
Server Hosting
Sub-Category
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Pricing Model
Subscription
Starts From
$5/mo (depends on type service)
Platforms
Web

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What is Heroku?

Heroku is a managed cloud platform for deploying, running, and scaling web applications, APIs, and background workers. It helps developers and startup teams ship software without managing servers directly.

Who should use Heroku?

  • You want to deploy a web application or API without managing servers, operating systems, or infrastructure provisioning.
  • You are a solo founder who needs managed application hosting with straightforward deployment and scaling.
  • You want to deploy applications directly from GitHub and automate releases when code changes.
  • You need separate development, staging, and production environments with review apps and deployment pipelines.
  • You want managed PostgreSQL databases, background workers, application monitoring, and add-on services within one platform.

Key Features of Heroku

  • Deploy applications using Git, GitHub integration, or Docker containers.
  • Run web processes, background workers, and one-off administrative tasks on dynos.
  • Scale application compute horizontally and vertically with different dyno tiers.
  • Create pipelines with development, review, staging, and production environments.
  • Provision managed PostgreSQL databases with backups, metrics, and database management tools.
  • Configure application environment variables and manage versioned releases and rollbacks.
  • Monitor application logs, runtime metrics, and performance through platform tools.
  • Extend applications using managed add-ons for databases, caching, messaging, and monitoring.

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