Hatchbox.io

Big thanks to @excid3 for helping me move Emergent Mind off of Heroku and over to DigitalOcean, managed by his product @hatchboxio. If you have a Ruby on Rails app hosted on Heroku, you have several options for migrating away, ranging from setting up the servers yourself to using a platform-as-a-service alternative like Render or Railway. Chris's product Hatchbox is a fantastic in-between option: - Your Rails app is hosted on an affordable platform like DigitalOcean or Hetzner - Hatchbox takes care of configuring the servers for a Ruby on Rails application. You select the server types and specify their roles (cron, web, workers, Redis/Memcached, etc), and Hatchbox handles the configuration and deployment. In the end, you can just git push your updates to GitHub, and Hatchbox pulls them in, deploys to your servers, runs migrations, and executes any custom scripts you have. I'm still optimizing my setup, but I think in the end I'm going to save 50% to 75% compared to my prior Heroku setup. Chris was super helpful in the process too, always quickly responding over DM whenever I had questions or ran into issues. If you've got a Rails app and are looking to move off Heroku, give Hatchbox a serious look before switching to another expensive PaaS.

Just finished moving my other product, Preceden, off Heroku and onto @hatchboxio. The great thing about Hatchbox is that because I already had a cluster set up for Emergent Mind, I was able to just move Preceden into it, so both apps now share the same DigitalOcean infrastructure. As far as my monthly costs, previously on Heroku I was paying: - $50 for Postgres - $34.95 for SendGrid 100K - $40 for Memcachier - $103.65 for dynos ($50 for a Standard-2X web dyno + $50 for a Standard-2X worker dyno + $3.65 for scheduler-initiated dynos) = $227/month New monthly costs: - $19.95 for Sendgrid 50K - $8 to bump the database cluster from 80gb to 120gb to accommodate Preceden's data - $0 additional incremental costs because it shares the same DigitalOcean infrastructure I already had set up for Emergent Mind = $28/month Total monthly savings: $199 Not having to deal with Heroku anymore: priceless

Just switched to @hatchboxio and OMG it's so bloody easy! ❤️ Good riddance Kamal

Azure Blob Storage is now an option for database backups on Hatchbox.io 🎉

We've had database backups in @Hatchboxio for a long time and you really need to know when something goes wrong. With our new @AppSignal integration, you can now monitor them to ensure they're backed up and stored safely every time.