Self-hosted alternative to Heroku - Ptah.sh

Hi there. :)

I am building a fair source alternative to Heroku / DigitalOcean AppPlatform.

GitHub: https://github.com/ptah-sh/ptah-server
WebSite: Ptah.sh

Creation Story

Back in 2020, my friend Andrii approached me with a proposal to start a new small startup — an esports statistics website. Knowing that Andrii is a master of strategic thinking, I had no doubt that the project wouldn’t take off, so I immediately agreed. We met at a restaurant where I, having watched too many Silicon Valley movies, drew the initial service architecture on a napkin. Overall, this says a lot about what we knew about the IT business in general at that time. :)

Throughout the history of running this website, I migrated between different clouds several times — from Heroku, through AWS, to DigitalOcean. Sometimes the reason was performance, sometimes cost, sometimes both.

Tired of constantly configuring everything and influenced by the #buildinpublic community on X (formerly Twitter), I decided to formalize my knowledge and skills in the form of a convenient (at least for me) service that would help me launch new subsystems for this project more easily.

As a result, we managed to save 82% of the monthly budget ($3.5k yearly) that we were using only for servers and databases.

If you like to see all-in-one video introduction, here’s the recording on YouTube!

Demo

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