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Gatsby Cloud VS Heroku
Gatsby Cloud
Gatsby Cloud is a cloud-based platform for building and deploying Gatsby-powered websites. It offers a range of features for building and deploying Gatsby applications quickly and easily, including support for continuous deployment, global CDN distribution, and real-time monitoring.
One of the key features of Gatsby Cloud is its focus on performance and scalability. The platform is built on top of a globally distributed edge network, which allows it to deliver fast, reliable performance to users around the world. Additionally, the platform integrates seamlessly with a number of popular services and tools, including GitHub, Slack, and Sentry.
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.
Gatsby Cloud
- Host Gatsby.js websites on a high-performance, distributed edge network
- enables the use of custom domains
- offers both a free plan and premium options with more features and scalability
- integrates with additional Gatsby plugins
- Appropriate for Gatsby.js websites and projects that need preview and production deployments
- Gatsby sites may be built and deployed with built-in support, which supports preview and production deploy
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
| FrameWork | Gatsby Cloud | Heroku |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Learn more | - |
| Infrastructure | AWS | 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, GitHub, outgoing webhook | Slack |
| Team Management | N/A | |
| Custom domains | ||
| Automatic HTTPS | ||
| Rewrites & Redirects | ||
| Password Protection | Included in paid plan. | |
| Websites | Unlimited | N/A |
| Build Minutes | N/A | N/A |
| Concurrent builds | 1 | N/A |
| Bandwidth | 100GB /month | N/A |
| Team Members | 1 | N/A |
| Build Time Per Deployment | 60 minutes | N/A |
| Build Memory Limit (in MiB) | 1024 MiB | N/A |
| Max team members before switch to custom pricing | 10 | 25 |
| Git contributors have to be Team Members | ||
| Serverless Functions (API) | JavaScript | |
| Edge Functions | ||
| Background Functions | N/A | |
| CRON Jobs | ||
| CLI | heroku cli | |
| Extensions | Heroku Elements: Add-ons, Buttons, Buildpacks | |
| Environment Variables | ||
| Build Logs | ||
| Build Canceling | ||
| Analytics | ||
| Authentication | ||
| Database | Heroku Postgres, Heroku Redis, Apache Kafka on Heroku | |
| Asset Optimizations | ||
| A/B Testing | ||
| Form Handling | ||
| Data Storage | ||
| Push Notifications | ||
| Machine Learning | ||
| Two-factor authentication | ||
| Team Logs | ||
| SOC2 | ||
| ISO27001 | ||
| GDPR | ||
| Carbon Neutral | N/A | N/A |
| Carbon-free Energy | N/A | N/A |
| Overview | - | Learn more |
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