Terms of Deployment: The Process of Evaluating Hatchbox, Fly and...
summary
Headway evaluates Hatchbox, fly.io, and Render by deploying real client projects and measuring the three costs that decide everything: knowledge cost, technical cost, and money cost. Findings: Hatchbox is opinionated and Rails‑only; fly.io offers global scaling but leaves databases largely unmanaged (some apps keep a Heroku managed DB); Render gives the fastest setup and lowest incidental bills and most Heroku‑like git push flow. One client migrates to fly.io; a public blog post and a Notion checklist document the process.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Deployment platform evaluation
- 1:45Who I am and why this talk matters
- 3:30Heroku free tier change
- 5:13Hosting contenders
- 5:55Hatchbox features and limits
- 7:17Fly.io global scaling
- 8:22Render speed cost
- 9:47Why choosing one platform isn’t always best
- 11:12Decision criteria
- 13:20Technical debt vs client needs
- 15:05Budget and hosting
- 16:31Decision tools
- 17:55Support resources
- 19:00Q&A databases scaling
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