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6 Options Considered

6 Options ConsideredPriceServer locationsVirtualization
DigitalOcean
New York (3); Amsterdam (2); San Francisco (2); Singapore; London; Frankfurt; Toronto; BangaloreKVM
F(x) Data Cloud
United StatesKVM
Heroku
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Google App Engine
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DigitalOcean

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Izem Lavrenti
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Pay-as-you-go with multiple payment options

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Billing is done per hour. Each month has a 672 hour (28-day) billing cap with server runtime past that point being free of charge. DigitalOcean accepts payments via Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and PayPal.
Izem Lavrenti
Top Pro

Flexible backup mechanism

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Automatic backups can be made for 20% of the droplet price and an unlimited amount of snapshots at $0.02 per GB of storage can be made manually. EditComments References 1
Izem Lavrenti
Top Pro

Beginner-friendly

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DigitalOcean has a control panel that's intuitive and easy to use, new servers (Droplets) can be spun up in under a minute and they offer stock "apps" (LAMP, RoR, Wordpress) that can be deployed instantly. There's also an extensive documentation for people new to VPS.
Izem Lavrenti
Top Pro

Great customer support

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Quick and knowledgeable customer service, extensive documentation and helpful community.
Laura Kyle
John Miller
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Server charging

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Digital Ocean charges the server 24/7 even if you turn it down. For example, on AWS you can shut down the server and it will not be charged.
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F(x) Data Cloud

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Chloe Montanez
Dagmara Szyszka
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Python Web application supported

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Best support and technical help.
Paolo
Emma
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Users get root access

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Chloe Montanez
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Cost-friendly plans

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Piyush Sonani
Top Pro

Auto back

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Know any negative aspects of this option?
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Heroku

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Capuccino
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GitHub Integration

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Heroku integrates deeply with GitHub for Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration as part of the Heroku Flow feature.
Izem Lavrenti
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Simple scaling

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Heroku instances can easily be scaled up or down by increasing or decreasing the number of available dynos for that instance. This can be done through the CLI or through Heroku's web UI.
Izem Lavrenti
Top Pro

Easy to start with

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Getting started with Heroku is very easy. It's a very straightforward procedure and a beginner can set up their first app in two minutes. Often it's just a matter of a couple of git commands and it's all set up and running. The official Heroku docmentation also helps a lot.
Izem Lavrenti
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No "out of memory" issues when building dependencies

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Heroku has dedicated servers for building app dependencies, to ensure that you won't have issues like "out of memory" errors when deploying your app.
Izem Lavrenti
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Excellent error logs

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When your deploy fails you see a legitimate error log. Many of the other PaaS give you nondescript messages and debugging is a pain. Debugging Heroku wins by comparison.
Izem Lavrenti
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Mature

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Heroku is one of the oldest PaaS providers. The fact that it's been around for such a long time means that it had a lot of time to mature over the years. There's also a massive number of articles, guides and tutorials on Heroku out there for beginners and advanced users.
Izem Lavrenti
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Add-ons let you easily add features and technologies

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Heroku has a vast list of plugins and services that can be added to an instance. These plugins cover things from databases to email systems. This remove the task of having to install services and setting them up manually. Heroku does it all for you.
Izem Lavrenti
Top Pro

Free option

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Heroku offers a free tier which contains a single dyno instance and is available for up to 18 hours per day. It offers 512MB of memory and 100MB swap space.
Izem Lavrenti
Top Con

Constrained by addons

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If you want to fully customize your production environment, then Heroku can be seriously constraining. Installing libraries or services can not be done unless there is already a Heroku plugin for it.
Ray
Izem Lavrenti
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Further deployments are slow with free dynos

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While starting with Heroku is fast and easy, and the first few deployments are actually very fast, larger applications tend to have slower deployments. Unless your application is on a paid dyno with preboot enabled, it takes some time for the dynos to restart and while they are restarting the appli...
Izem Lavrenti
Top Con

Really expensive

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Heroku starts getting really expensive once you leave that free tier. It's not just the bare Heroku service that is costly, the addons as well are very pricey.
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PythonAnywhere

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lampington
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Free option

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You can run a website at USERNAME.pythonanywhere.com for free, and it's good enough for a light-traffic website -- it runs 24/7. You get a free MySQL or SQLite database too.
lampington
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Excellent customer service

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Really fast turnaround, friendly.
lampington
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Easy scaling

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You pay for a number of "Workers" for your web app (to handle requests), or CPU seconds for code that you run outside a web app, and you can get more workers or CPU seconds by upgrading your plan any time.
lampington
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Easy setup

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It's literally a matter of minutes to get a Python-backed website up and running.
Patricia Q
lampington
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Not too expensive

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A basic site with no custom domain is free. $5 a month will afford the user enough power for a typical 100,000 hit a day website.
lampington
Top Pro

Flexible payments

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You can pay monthly and cancel any time, or pay for a year up front to get a discount.
lampington
Top Con

No WebSocket support

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lampington
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Python-only on the server side

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Obviously you can put JavaScript in your web pages and so on, but you can't use Rails or Node.
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Google App Engine

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Endi Sukaj
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Increases application speed considerably

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Google App Engine integrates with Google's CDN out of the box and it distributes your application's assets through that, increasing loading speed considerably.
Endi Sukaj
Top Pro

Easy to use

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Google App Engine is very easy to use. All you need to do is install the SDK (which in itself is easy as well, and the documentation is very heplful) and run the command needed depending on the type of project to deploy it. For example, to deploy a golang application, you run golang deploy inside...
Endi Sukaj
Top Con

No SQL database available

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Google App Engine uses Google's NoSQL cloud database. There's no option to use a SQL database with your application.
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Cloudean Infotech

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