Is it possible to publish to Heroku despite slug size being too large?

[chrismp]

I'm trying to push more than 1.5GB worth of SQLite databases -- 535MB compressed -- to Heroku but I get this error when I run the datasette publish heroku command.

Compiled slug size: 535.5M is too large (max is 500M).

Can I publish the databases and make datasette work on Heroku despite the large slug size?

[simonw]

Unfortunately not - I really wish this was possible. I have not yet found a great serverless solution for publishing 1GB+ databases - they're too big for Heroku, Cloud Run OR Zeit Now. Once databases get that big the only option I've found is to run a VPS (or an EC2 instance) with a mounted hard drive volume and execute datasette serve on that instance, with an nginx running on port 80 that proxies traffic back to Datasette.

I'd love to figure out a way to make hosting larger databases as easy as it currently is to host small ones.

[chrismp]

Ah, so basically put the SQLite databases on Linode, for example, and run datasette serve on there? I'm comfortable with that.