Heroku Is (Finally, Officially) Dead

Salesforce announced Heroku is moving to a "sustaining engineering model" and no longer accepting new enterprise customers, effectively signaling the platform's end after years of declining investment and reliability issues. Several modern alternatives exist including Render, Fly.io, Railway, and Digital Ocean App Platform for managed hosting, plus self-hosted options like Coolify and Dokku for VPS deployments. The choice between PaaS and VPS depends on team size, traffic levels, and willingness to manage infrastructure versus paying for convenience.