Cloud / Infra providers

I’ve only tried fly.io, and even that not for anything in production, but can attest to its ease of use (and it’s apparently even easier now mix phx.release can create docker images for you: Chris McCord on X: "You can now deploy a Phoenix 1.6.4 app on @flydotio with `mix https://t.co/dKmeljW9k1`, `fly launch`. That's it! See it in action: https://t.co/mZLYGKhvSN" / X). They’re very responsive on their forum.

Digital Ocean’s App Platform:

• Runs your Docker image,
• PostgreSQL,
• Provides S3-compatible storage if needed,
• Remote console,
• Basic graphs for the app and the DB (CPU usage, etc.).

I’m really happy with it. Switched from Render because of the graphs and more responsive remote console - but that was before Render introduced the free tier.

Once you package your app into a Docker image, switching a provider is not that hard.

I was looking to run on render.com for a little project. I was all excited about their free tier but then saw that the DB will stop after 90 days unless you upgrade it to a paid version.

The pricing for DO App is awesome. What is the cheapest DB you can add?

I’m using the cheapest one: $15/mo, 1GB mem, 10GB disk.

I am using AWS Lightsail. Managed DB, S3, containers, LB and CDN.
The nice part is that you can move to a more involved setup if you outgrow simple hosting.

I didnt choose DO because their S3(spaces) back then had some troubles.

Some things I remembered from trying those out.

Gigalixir

1. Uses buildpacks, no Docker support
2. No Asia region so if your customers are outside the US or EU, good luck with the LiveView latency.
3. Has managed DBs

Render

1. Has Docker support, no buildpacks
2. No Asia region
3. Has managed DBs

Fly

1. Has Docker support. But as what others mentioned, deploying Phoenix doesn’t require you to fiddle around with Docker anymore!
2. Has lots of regions
3. Chris McCord is working there so that’s a massive win for Phoenix
4. No managed DBs but they have options to spin a DB up. Although I think you have to manage it yourself, could be wrong now.

Kubernetes on Linode for both the app and the db because nice to not have any vendor lock-in. I played with fly.io and wow its very nice and easy. Much more expensive than linode but I would def consider them for any projects that need low latency across the world.

A couple of quick clarifications on Render:

1. Our 90-day database free tier is temporary; we’re working on a perpetual free PostgreSQL tier that will replace the current offering.
2. @stefanchrobot: we have graphs for CPU and memory (and conn counts for Postgres!) What were you missing? Re: the remote console, SSH is launching in early access this week, and native Redis is already in EA.

There was a discussion at the beginning of the year about this (over here), don’t know if you missed it, might find more information for what you’re looking for.

Personally, i still use Scalingo (5 years for any stack, 2 years with Phoenix). Never had any issue (nothing worth mentioning anyway). There not worldwide (well, not like the others, there getting there, you can make a request for access to US based datacenters), so that depends on what you’re looking for i guess. Deployment, managed databases, there close to what Heroku provides, but without a lot of their limitations (they provide a free small database instance to go along a container for testing).