My experience migrating our backend from Heroku to Digital Ocean

Sydney Cohen shares their experience migrating Axolo's backend from Heroku to Digital Ocean, reducing costs from $560 to $67 per month for a similar type of server. They discuss reasons for migration, including pricing and scaling limitations on Heroku. The migration process took two days and involved creating an app on DO, connecting MongoDB and Redis databases, setting up cron jobs using EasyCron, and transferring DNS settings. Some trade-offs were identified, such as less insightful monitoring UI, slower build times, and more complex add-on setups compared to Heroku. The author also mentions alternative cloud providers like Kinsta, which offers unlimited crons, usage-based pricing, and a custom-built dashboard.