If you haven't yet given us a try we have quite a nice offering to try free for 7 days plus if you use @digitalocean as your provider you can use our link to get $200 in credit with them! Really no reason to not try it all out.
One of many nice things about us is that if we ever go down, your app stays up.
Unlike traditional PaaS platforms, your servers live wherever you choose. We handle deploys and server config. The infrastructure stays yours.
Very excited for the coming months as we start working on and through our roadmap. If there's something you'd like to see on said map let us know below!
As the weekend approaches and you're ready to unleash your swarm of agents to build all those side projects you've been sitting on, remember that you're now freed up to think about where to host them. Consider giving us a try! https://t.co/tsOFe6g2nq
Just finished moving my other product, Preceden, off Heroku and onto @hatchboxio.
The great thing about Hatchbox is that because I already had a cluster set up for Emergent Mind, I was able to just move Preceden into it, so both apps now share the same DigitalOcean infrastructure.
As far as my monthly costs, previously on Heroku I was paying:
- $50 for Postgres
- $34.95 for SendGrid 100K
- $40 for Memcachier
- $103.65 for dynos ($50 for a Standard-2X web dyno + $50 for a Standard-2X worker dyno + $3.65 for scheduler-initiated dynos)
= $227/month
New monthly costs:
- $19.95 for Sendgrid 50K
- $8 to bump the database cluster from 80gb to 120gb to accommodate Preceden's data
- $0 additional incremental costs because it shares the same DigitalOcean infrastructure I already had set up for Emergent Mind
= $28/month
Total monthly savings: $199
Not having to deal with Heroku anymore: priceless
Just finished moving my other product, Preceden, off Heroku and onto @hatchboxio.
The great thing about Hatchbox is that because I already had a cluster set up for Emergent Mind, I was able to just move Preceden into it, so both apps now share the same DigitalOcean infrastructure.
As far as my monthly costs, previously on Heroku I was paying:
- $50 for Postgres
- $34.95 for SendGrid 100K
- $40 for Memcachier
- $103.65 for dynos ($50 for a Standard-2X web dyno + $50 for a Standard-2X worker dyno + $3.65 for scheduler-initiated dynos)
= $227/month
New monthly costs:
- $19.95 for Sendgrid 50K
- $8 to bump the database cluster from 80gb to 120gb to accommodate Preceden's data
- $0 additional incremental costs because it shares the same DigitalOcean infrastructure I already had set up for Emergent Mind
= $28/month
Total monthly savings: $199
Not having to deal with Heroku anymore: priceless
nothing i can do about 6 apps/services being down right now (see: @railway outage), but here's my plan for in the morning after i've had a fresh night of sleep...
1. move all web services to @Hetzner_Online
2. move all postgres databases to @digitalocean
3. manage it all with @hatchboxio
i've got this exact stack for other things, so i'm exceedingly comfortable with it. will just be scaling it all up to handle more apps.
all of the affected apps are rails + postgres.
Mark Miller has been on @hatchboxio since 2019.
Easy to operate. Support answered in under an hour.
"Doesn't get much better than that." ๐คท
We agree.
Our customer support doesn't just answer tickets. We dig in, understand the problem, and see it through to a fix.
Jake Duchesne said it well: "If you want a deployment platform where someone genuinely has your back, Hatchbox is it."
Happy Friday!!
Reminder: code hatchbox2026 gets you a discount on @AppSignal + the new @hatchboxio integration.
Monitor your cron jobs, DB backups, error rates, response times, and host metrics โ all from your Hatchbox dashboard.
Don't leave your Rails apps unmonitored.
Happy Friday!!
Reminder: code hatchbox2026 gets you a discount on @AppSignal + the new @hatchboxio integration.
Monitor your cron jobs, DB backups, error rates, response times, and host metrics โ all from your Hatchbox dashboard.
Don't leave your Rails apps unmonitored.
PaaS was a great deal until it wasn't.
But what changed?
Costs went up, flexibility vanished, and debugging turned into a black box.
We break down what's wrong with PaaS today, and what you can do about it with the help of tools like @hatchboxio
https://t.co/px459bSnKH
Running Rails apps on @hatchboxio?
Use code hatchbox2026 to get a discount on @AppSignal at sign up and unlock the new monitoring integration.
Error tracking + cron/database backup monitoring + host metrics!
We've had database backups in @Hatchboxio for a long time and you really need to know when something goes wrong.
With our new @AppSignal integration, you can now monitor them to ensure they're backed up and stored safely every time.
Here's the visibility the @hatchboxio + @AppSignal integration gives you:
Monitor processes, DB backups & cron jobs via appsignal-wrap. Quick links to your AppSignal dashboard per app. Error rate, throughput & response times at a glance. Host metrics without digging through logs