Digital Ocean App Platform VS Heroku

Digital Ocean App Platform

Digital Ocean App Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that allows developers to build, deploy, and scale applications on top of DigitalOcean's infrastructure.

With the Digital Ocean App Platform, you can deploy your code with a single click, and the platform will take care of the rest, including provisioning servers, configuring load balancers, and scaling your application as needed. You can deploy a variety of different types of applications to the App Platform, including containerized applications, serverless functions, and static websites.

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Heroku

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications in a variety of languages. With Heroku, you can deploy your application by pushing your code to a Git repository, and the platform will automatically build and run your application.

Heroku provides a number of services and features that are designed to help you build and manage your applications, including support for a variety of programming languages, a cloud-based application server, a managed database service, and a number of other tools and services. You can use Heroku to deploy a wide range of applications, including web applications, mobile applications, and APIs.

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  • Digital Ocean App Platform
    • Global CDN-based hosting
    • enables the usage of unique authentication and authorisation sources
    • Git-based workflow and built-in support for continuous integration and deployment allow for the customization of the pipeline with unique actions
    • Pay-per-use fees are assessed according to the resources utilised
    • connects to more services like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
    • flexible, suitable for a variety of online applications, and offers more infrastructure control
  • Heroku
    • host web applications written in a variety of languages, including as Java, Ruby, Python, and Java
    • enables the use of custom domains
    • offers both a free plan and premium options with more features and scalability
    • enables for scalable and on-demand resource provisioning and integrates with a variety of add-ons
    • Suitable for web programmes written in a variety of languages, with the capacity to expand and make resources available as needed
    • has numerous deploy choices, a pipeline creation capability, and a build and deployment function

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FrameWork Digital Ocean App Platform Heroku
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Infrastructure
DigitalOcean Cloud Cloudflare for CDN
Heroku Cloud
Continuous deployment
Automated builds from Git
Instant rollbacks to any version
Site previews for every push
Compatible with all Static Site Generators
Notifications
Slack
Team Management
Custom domains
Automatic HTTPS
Rewrites & Redirects
Password Protection
Websites
3
N/A
Build Minutes
100 minutes /month
N/A
Concurrent builds
1
N/A
Bandwidth
1 GB /app
N/A
Team Members
Unlimited
N/A
Build Time Per Deployment
60 minutes
N/A
Build Memory Limit (in MiB)
8192 MiB
N/A
Max team members before switch to custom pricing
Unlimited
25
Git contributors have to be Team Members
Serverless Functions (API)
Edge Functions
Background Functions
Workers
N/A
CRON Jobs
CLI
doctl
heroku cli
Extensions
Heroku Elements: Add-ons, Buttons, Buildpacks
Environment Variables
Build Logs
Build Canceling
Analytics
Authentication
Database
PostgreSQL
Heroku Postgres, Heroku Redis, Apache Kafka on Heroku
Asset Optimizations
A/B Testing
Form Handling
Data Storage
Spaces, compatible with Amazon S3
Push Notifications
Machine Learning
Two-factor authentication
Team Logs
SOC2
ISO27001
GDPR
Carbon Neutral
N/A
Carbon-free Energy
Not clear policy
N/A
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