As someone who does NOT know infra, I used to run things on Heroku, but since it's not improved in a decade while getting more expensive at the same time, and I had over a dozen personal projects there, I decided to move things out. It was also a good chance to get better at devops stuff!
The ROI so far from a "financial" point of view has been terrible, I've spent probably close to 40-60 hours just to set up things and it's still held by stitches. My apps go down from time to time, deploying takes 5x the time and each new website/app I try to migrate is 1~3h from beginning to end vs a few minutes it'd be in Heroku.
I started with DigitalOcean+Dokku, but I'm thinking about investing another 20~50h and learn Coolify, I have only heard amazing things on Twitter (my main concern is that it's "the new cool kid in the block" and maybe not as good as people make it seem).
Edit: the ROI of learning new things has been amazing though, I wish I had done this earlier.
The ROI so far from a "financial" point of view has been terrible, I've spent probably close to 40-60 hours just to set up things and it's still held by stitches. My apps go down from time to time, deploying takes 5x the time and each new website/app I try to migrate is 1~3h from beginning to end vs a few minutes it'd be in Heroku.
I started with DigitalOcean+Dokku, but I'm thinking about investing another 20~50h and learn Coolify, I have only heard amazing things on Twitter (my main concern is that it's "the new cool kid in the block" and maybe not as good as people make it seem).
Edit: the ROI of learning new things has been amazing though, I wish I had done this earlier.