Heroku’s simplicity,without the ceiling.
The git push your developers know, on a managed Kubernetes cluster with a European provider. Machines at the provider’s price, platform per resource, and an exit available at any time.
A PaaS’s simplicity gets expensive when you grow.
Heroku defined the right gesture: push your code and watch your app run. What has aged badly is the rest: a per-dyno price that climbs faster than traffic, data under US law, and a proprietary architecture you only leave by rewriting. A serious alternative must keep the gesture and replace the foundation.
The same gesture, a different foundation.
What your Heroku habits become on Fransys.
git push, unchanged
Deployment still starts from the repository. Build, release and automatic rollback on failure.
Add-ons become blocks
PostgreSQL, Redis or storage are placed on the canvas as blocks, versioned with the rest of the architecture.
Dynos become resources
You reserve vCPU and memory that follow the load, instead of stacking flat-rate dynos.
Heroku or Fransys, point by point.
Heroku
Fransys
The other European alternatives, honestly.
Depending on your situation, one of these may serve you better than Fransys. Here is how we place them.
Scalingo
The French PaaS closest to the Heroku experience, hosted in France, strong on compliance. The right choice if you want a classic PaaS without touching Kubernetes.
Clever Cloud
A proven French PaaS, rich in runtimes and managed services. Relevant when your applications fit its templates.
Upsun, by Platform.sh
A platform of French origin built around per-branch environments, aimed at product teams. Suited to large application monorepos.
LayerOps
Positioned close to us: containers on the clouds of your choice, without lock-in. The comparison comes down to the operating model and pricing.
Fransys
The choice if you want PaaS simplicity with a real Kubernetes cluster underneath: reversible, machines at cost, with the European provider you pick.
« We stopped worrying about traffic spikes: the platform adjusts resources automatically. »
What people ask before leaving Heroku.
No. An application running on Heroku is already containerisable as is. The migration consists of rebuilding the architecture on the canvas, carrying over the environment variables and moving the data.
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