Porter Cloud
Infrastructure
platform as a service
SHOW HN2024
258points
95comments
#286of 3,515 in 2024
Top 9%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
12 positive, 33 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 12 critical, out of 61 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Idea: 7 for, 7 againstPricing: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 3 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Migrating from Heroku was easy and saved substantial cost
From 2 comments
We migrated from Heroku to Porter at work (at my behest). Still one of the better bets I’ve taken. There is definitely still some more devops overhead compared to Heroku, and I…
hahahacorn on HNAt HomeLight we migrated from Heroku to Porter and it has been great. The team has been super helpful, the platform as stable as you can get, and the cost savings have been…
malyk on HN
Helpful, friendly support team
From 2 comments
We migrated microservices from Heroku to Porter, and also from standalone VMs and K8s running on AWS to Porter. As a coder trying to do both dev and devops on a tiny team, it was…
jedwhite on HNAt HomeLight we migrated from Heroku to Porter and it has been great. The team has been super helpful, the platform as stable as you can get, and the cost savings have been…
malyk on HN
Eject option avoids vendor lock-in
From 2 comments
Congrats on the launch guys! This is a great feature, in a world where most companies try to increase lock in! Huge fans of Porter, we've been using them for a number of years at…
wmab on HNHad this exact problem (Heroku Postgres to RDS) at my old co. Data migration went as bad as it possibly could (dropped indices, foreign keys, everything but the data itself).…
bkitano19 on HN
Objections
Starting on a PaaS seems pointless when GCP or AWS can be used directly with little lock-in
From 3 comments
I personally don't get it. You can start on GCP today, without being tied to GCP much at all. It isn't even expensive to do so. Is there something I'm missing here? Cloud…
latchkey on HN> We want the process of moving from Porter Cloud to one of the hyperscalers as arbitrary as a click of a button. What I don't understand is why someone would start with Porter…
latchkey on HNI have never quite understood this value proposition (maybe I am not the target audience?) The point of PaaS is to avoid DevOps... making a PasS with an eject just feels…
MobileVet on HN
Pricing seems high compared with Fly.io, Render and Heroku
From 3 comments
It's a great idea, but the pricing seems high - $30/month minimum? I'm running 3 apps on Fly.io and I'm still so low in the pricing that they're invoicing me $0. I will pay for…
davedx on HNI don't understand the developer's pricing (new offering) which is as below: $10 per month GB RAM $20 per month vCPU As compared to standard pricing which is: $6 per month GB RAM…
dockerd on HNHey thanks for sharing. You mention 3x cheaper than Heroku, but the pricing page specifies $10 per month GB RAM, $20 per month vCPU. I'm having a hard time to compare with Heroku…
pil0u on HN
No free tier and credit card paywall
From 2 comments
not sure where you saw $30/month minimum! There's no minimum spend on Porter, and you just pay for what you use as low as a 0.1 CPU and 1MB RAM. We do not have a free tier however.
sungrokshim on HNCredit card paywall, so I'd recommend to check Render or Koyeb for these people who prefer to save their time.
paulcarroty on HN
Product is less mature with more devops overhead than Heroku
From 1 comment
We migrated from Heroku to Porter at work (at my behest). Still one of the better bets I’ve taken. There is definitely still some more devops overhead compared to Heroku, and I…
hahahacorn on HN
Requests
Support for Hetzner, DigitalOcean and bare metal
From 4 comments
Any plans to support Hetzner?
rgrieselhuber on HNAny plans to support eject to on-prem or bare metal hosters like Hetzner?
kiney on HNCan I use it on DigitalOcean?
liuxiaopai on HNWhy just big 3? How about Digital Ocean?
terpimost on HN
Support for AWS GovCloud
From 1 comment
Please support AWS GovCloud!
bshul-silkline1 on HN
GPU support in Porter Cloud
From 1 comment
talk to me about GPU’s? I saw some gpu_node config stuff in your documentation a couple days ago. If Porter can host GPU’s, that’s a superpower render.com doesn’t have.
adenta on HN
Questions
What is the business model, especially for the eject feature?
From 2 comments
I looked into porter at the time we were migrating from Heroku to AWS! I thought it would have been a great solution if it was mature when we first started on heroku. At this…
mushufasa on HNI meant: what's the business model for Eject specifically? Why make it easy for customers to leave (aside from pre-empting buying-decision concerns)
mushufasa on HN
How does it compare to Render, Fly.io, Coolify or CapRover?
From 2 comments
Is the eject button the only thing that makes Porter more appealing than something like Fly.io or Render? They too automate a lot of stuff but for a better price.
sosodev on HNHow does this compare to Coolify/CapRover
localfirst on HN
Why use it instead of starting directly on a cloud provider?
From 1 comment
> We want the process of moving from Porter Cloud to one of the hyperscalers as arbitrary as a click of a button. What I don't understand is why someone would start with Porter…
latchkey on HN
Alternatives named
Render
From 2 comments
I have never quite understood this value proposition (maybe I am not the target audience?) The point of PaaS is to avoid DevOps... making a PasS with an eject just feels…
MobileVet on HNCredit card paywall, so I'd recommend to check Render or Koyeb for these people who prefer to save their time.
paulcarroty on HN
Fly.io
From 2 comments
It's a great idea, but the pricing seems high - $30/month minimum? I'm running 3 apps on Fly.io and I'm still so low in the pricing that they're invoicing me $0. I will pay for…
davedx on HNIs the eject button the only thing that makes Porter more appealing than something like Fly.io or Render? They too automate a lot of stuff but for a better price.
sosodev on HN
Hatchbox
From 1 comment
This is a great idea. For our startup, we instead use Hatchbox [1]. It provides us with that one-click PaaS experience while allowing us to run on your preferred platform (AWS).…
schappim on HN
Cloud66
From 1 comment
I wonder how that category of services, which Porter provides could be called. I would put the following services in that category: - Porter - Cloud66 https://www.cloud66.com -…
tmaier on HN
Northflank
From 1 comment
I highly recommend checking out Northflank. Their pricing is a lot friendlier. https://northflank.com/
PapaPalpatine on HN