benmartin | 3 years ago | on: Serving 250k developers with one support engineer
Oh there are numerous alternatives to Heroku. Just look for "PaaS" and your favourite software components (programming language, DB, CDN etc) and you'll find a list.
I find Platform.sh is an excellent alternative to Heroku, dare I say better. Same thing - configure once and operate forever, scale as you need...
Really Heroku used to be a big name but it is now declining, and lets face it - many used it just because it had a tiny plan for free.