That's an interesting insight, I have always been wondering about the tech behind Steempeak! Heroku is amazing but does get quite expensive very quickly, this is why I have now moved our TravelFeed deployment to our own server. Docker Hub auto-builds from different branches and automatic pulling of container updates with a tool like watchtower brings it quite close to the Heroku experience at a much smaller cost since we run the server anyway for Hivemind
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Make sense, but I prefer to do that move when I see that the current setup cannot handle the load anymore. Also I don't want to rely on a dedicated server without a backup for when I'm off the grid :)
But hopefully DigitalOcean will provide a viable Heroku alternative soon enough and I can switch to one of their droplet.
Good point; In the medium-term we will also move to a more distributed infrastructure with a backup server, but since our backend doesn't use the Steem API but accesses our customized Hivemind, nothing works anyway if our server is down and hosting a second Hivemind means paying for another dedicated server with large SSD storage