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Equinix Metal

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Pros of Equinix Metal
Pros of Glitch
Pros of Heroku
  • 3
    Great performance
  • 3
    No multi tenancy
  • 2
    Fantastic customer support
  • 12
    Bang! App built
  • 9
    Instant APPification ;)
  • 7
    Auto commits
  • 4
    No no. limitation on free projects
  • 3
    Easy to use
  • 2
    Tons of usable code
  • 2
    Awesome support
  • 2
    Very fast API creation. Especially for small apps
  • 1
    Github Integration
  • 703
    Easy deployment
  • 459
    Free for side projects
  • 374
    Huge time-saver
  • 348
    Simple scaling
  • 261
    Low devops skills required
  • 190
    Easy setup
  • 174
    Add-ons for almost everything
  • 153
    Beginner friendly
  • 150
    Better for startups
  • 133
    Low learning curve
  • 48
    Postgres hosting
  • 41
    Easy to add collaborators
  • 30
    Faster development
  • 24
    Awesome documentation
  • 19
    Simple rollback
  • 19
    Focus on product, not deployment
  • 15
    Natural companion for rails development
  • 15
    Easy integration
  • 12
    Great customer support
  • 8
    GitHub integration
  • 6
    Painless & well documented
  • 6
    No-ops
  • 4
    I love that they make it free to launch a side project
  • 4
    Free
  • 3
    Great UI
  • 3
    Just works
  • 2
    PostgreSQL forking and following
  • 2
    MySQL extension
  • 1
    Security
  • 1
    Able to host stuff good like Discord Bot
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Cons of Equinix Metal
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    • 5
      UI could be better / cleaner
    • 2
      Limited Support/Diffficult to use Non-JS Languages
    • 1
      Automatically suspends proxies
    • 1
      Not good for big projects
    • 1
      Cannot delete project, only the source code is
    • 27
      Super expensive
    • 9
      Not a whole lot of flexibility
    • 7
      No usable MySQL option
    • 7
      Storage
    • 5
      Low performance on free tier
    • 2
      24/7 support is $1,000 per month

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    What is Equinix Metal?

    As part of Equinix — the world’s digital infrastructure company — we provide automated & interconnected infrastructure. Formerly Packet, now Equinix Metal™.

    What is Glitch?

    Combining automated deployment, instant hosting and collaborative editing, Gomix gets you straight to coding. The apps you create are instantly live, hosted by us, and always up to date with your latest changes. Build products, prototype ideas, and hack solutions to problems.

    What is Heroku?

    Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

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