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Moving Off Heroku, Slowly
This is the tale of how we gradually reduced our reliance on Heroku and found a position of power and opportunity
And, in the places that Heroku couldn’t support our use case, like providing custom domains for our users, we had to expend considerable effort and stress managing servers. That’s our situation now: we’ve divested Heroku of our CI, add-ons, and databases so now the only thing left running over there are the dynos powering the web and background processes. At the current moment, we have a good discount on an enterprise contract with Heroku and that means the savings from moving our servers to another provider just don’t justify the risk and opportunity cost.
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