Heroku vs Pivotal Web Services (PWS) vs Red Hat OpenShift

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Heroku

25.3K
20.2K
+ 1
3.2K
Pivotal Web Services (PWS)

36
64
+ 1
0
Red Hat OpenShift

1.5K
1.4K
+ 1
517
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Pros of Heroku
Pros of Pivotal Web Services (PWS)
Pros of Red Hat OpenShift
  • 703
    Easy deployment
  • 459
    Free for side projects
  • 374
    Huge time-saver
  • 348
    Simple scaling
  • 261
    Low devops skills required
  • 190
    Easy setup
  • 174
    Add-ons for almost everything
  • 153
    Beginner friendly
  • 150
    Better for startups
  • 133
    Low learning curve
  • 48
    Postgres hosting
  • 41
    Easy to add collaborators
  • 30
    Faster development
  • 24
    Awesome documentation
  • 19
    Simple rollback
  • 19
    Focus on product, not deployment
  • 15
    Natural companion for rails development
  • 15
    Easy integration
  • 12
    Great customer support
  • 8
    GitHub integration
  • 6
    Painless & well documented
  • 6
    No-ops
  • 4
    I love that they make it free to launch a side project
  • 4
    Free
  • 3
    Great UI
  • 3
    Just works
  • 2
    PostgreSQL forking and following
  • 2
    MySQL extension
  • 1
    Security
  • 1
    Able to host stuff good like Discord Bot
  • 0
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    • 99
      Good free plan
    • 63
      Open Source
    • 47
      Easy setup
    • 43
      Nodejs support
    • 42
      Well documented
    • 32
      Custom domains
    • 28
      Mongodb support
    • 27
      Clean and simple architecture
    • 25
      PHP support
    • 21
      Customizable environments
    • 11
      Ability to run CRON jobs
    • 9
      Easier than Heroku for a WordPress blog
    • 8
      Easy deployment
    • 7
      PostgreSQL support
    • 7
      Autoscaling
    • 7
      Good balance between Heroku and AWS for flexibility
    • 5
      Free, Easy Setup, Lot of Gear or D.I.Y Gear
    • 4
      Shell access to gears
    • 3
      Great Support
    • 3
      High Security
    • 3
      Logging & Metrics
    • 2
      Cloud Agnostic
    • 2
      Runs Anywhere - AWS, GCP, Azure
    • 2
      No credit card needed
    • 2
      Because it is easy to manage
    • 2
      Secure
    • 2
      Meteor support
    • 2
      Overly complicated and over engineered in majority of e
    • 2
      Golang support
    • 2
      Its free and offer custom domain usage
    • 1
      Autoscaling at a good price point
    • 1
      Easy setup and great customer support
    • 1
      MultiCloud
    • 1
      Great free plan with excellent support
    • 1
      This is the only free one among the three as of today

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    Cons of Heroku
    Cons of Pivotal Web Services (PWS)
    Cons of Red Hat OpenShift
    • 27
      Super expensive
    • 9
      Not a whole lot of flexibility
    • 7
      No usable MySQL option
    • 7
      Storage
    • 5
      Low performance on free tier
    • 2
      24/7 support is $1,000 per month
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      • 2
        Decisions are made for you, limiting your options
      • 2
        License cost
      • 1
        Behind, sometimes severely, the upstreams

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      What is Heroku?

      Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

      What is Pivotal Web Services (PWS)?

      Pivotal Web Services is a public cloud version of the widely supported Open Source Cloud Foundry PaaS. PWS makes is an ideal platform for the rapid deployment, easy scaling and binding of third party apps for Java, PHP, Ruby, GO and Python apps. Focus on apps not dev ops.

      What is Red Hat OpenShift?

      OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

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      What are some alternatives to Heroku, Pivotal Web Services (PWS), and Red Hat OpenShift?
      DigitalOcean
      We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.
      Google App Engine
      Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
      Firebase
      Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
      Docker
      The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
      Microsoft Azure
      Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.
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