Heroku Free Plan Shutdown (hosting provider change)

[Bellisario]

On November 28, node-snapdrop public server will stop working because of Heroku Free Plan Shutdown.
Since I cannot spend money to keep running this server my own, it will be shutdown because I'll not have "free dynos" anymore.

I'm asking all the Snapdrop and node-snapdrop community to help this open-source project keep running by proposing new free hosting solutions that are compatible with technologies used here.

Remember also node-snapdrop have to keep WebSocket connections for clients discover, so for example Serverless Functions (Vercel, etc...) won't work properly.

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Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services.
- Heroku Next Chapter

[iaeiou]

Damn, sorry to hear that!
I don't know the requirements enough, but a starting point could be this article I stumbled upon today on dev.to: https://dev.to/jainilprajapati/7-fantastic-heroku-alternatives-4jf8

[r-40021]

I found Render as a solution for deploying Node.js apps.
You can deploy them in the same way as Heroku.
https://render.com/docs/deploy-node-express-app

[Bellisario]

Thanks very much @iaeiou and @r-40021, I opted for Render!

The new server URL it's here:
https://node-snapdrop.onrender.com

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Anyway, I'll keep the Heroku server active as long as possible, but I think I'll delete app re-build on repo push since I'm let it die...