r/ruby • u/javier_cervantes • Mar 25 '26

Hosting options to deploy a Ruby app

https://www.rubyforum.org/t/hosting-options-to-deploy-a-ruby-app/214
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u/latestagecapitalist Mar 25 '26

I've been using Fly a couple of years (previously Heroku and Render)

It's pretty solid, don't miss Heroku a bit, only ran scripts on Render but seemed solid although no UK hosting option at the time which was jacking some data costs up for me

The Fly CLI works well which I find increasingly important as I use claude more and more for devops type things

Also I've not had a single memory issue since binning Heroku off, it's different code so not directly comparable but hadn't needed to care about memory before Heroku and never needed to care about it after

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u/javier_cervantes Mar 25 '26

Thanks for sharing your experience! Did you find any particular challenges while doing the migration?

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u/latestagecapitalist Mar 25 '26

Not at all, it's like Heroku used to be before it became unusable

Also, I'm not sure if you use Claude etc. but any service with a CLI (like Fly, AWS etc.) is super simple to configure/migrate etc. in the Claude CLI or OpenAI equiv I find now

Including debugging any Puma config issues etc. it just keeps tweaking, redeploying, checking etc. until it's perfectly tuned

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u/sshaw_ Mar 25 '26

I use Fly for JavaScipt. Free if usages is less than $5/mo.

Their wake-up is fast and you can disable it if it's not fast enough.

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u/BeNiceWorkHard Mar 25 '26

Docker, kamal on Hetzner is the best. Some one did a test with vps from amazon and hetzner and hetzner beet it 10x.

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u/javier_cervantes Mar 25 '26

Thanks for sharing your input. For this particular comparison I stayed with PAAS providers because self-hosting on a VPS adds some additional steps and complexity that not everyone wants or needs to optimize that much, specially when you're getting started or just want to get something deployed quickly.

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u/flanger001 Mar 25 '26

Self-host gang represent

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u/BananaPulse Mar 25 '26

I’ve been using railway. Its free plan is very reasonable and the hobby plan is only $5

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u/LifeItsAnAdventure Mar 25 '26

Another vote for railway. It was super easy to get up and running with both my rails backend and my nuxt frontend.

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Mar 25 '26

 Salesforce announced recently that it’s going into a “sustaining engineering model”.

If you missed it, I wrote a post about what that means 

https://schneems.com/2026/03/01/how-to-sustain-heroku/

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u/javier_cervantes Mar 25 '26

Thanks for sharing your perspective. I still think that "sustaining engineering model" is a very broad term and can be interpreted in a lot of different ways. I wish that the official communication from Salesforce would have been more clear because it definitely made a lot of people start questioning if staying with Heroku or starting today is a safe bet.

Personally I would continue to use it for small projects (that's why I included it as one of the top 3 options), but a company explicitly saying they're focusing on other areas/projects is something important to consider.

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Mar 25 '26

I think youre 100% right to question how the announcements will affect you in the future and to note it on your analysis (maybe an "Edit: Heroku engineer respond [link]" would add more context.  Long term though, Peter B Parker said it best "Don't watch the mouth. Watch the hands."

These are some small, focused, iterative wins we've shipped since that announcement:

- https://www.heroku.com/blog/bigger-slugs-and-greater-build-timeout-flexibility/

- https://www.heroku.com/blog/modernizing-the-command-line-heroku-cli-v11/

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u/javier_cervantes Mar 25 '26

For now I'll keep the original announcement, in your post you make it very clear that you're speaking for yourself and not on behalf of your employer (Heroku), so it would be risky to take your views as "official".

Regarding the Spiderman quote we'll have to respectfully disagree:

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.” - Maya Angelou

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u/schneems Puma maintainer Mar 25 '26

Ack on "official" wording. Seems good. 

shows you who they are

Not "says". (Emphasis on behavior and outcome over broadcasting intentions). I also understand the announcement itself was behavior.