Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.

OpsCaptain is described as 'The easiest way to deploy and manage websites, applications and databases on the infrastructure of your choice' and is a Cloud Computing service in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to OpsCaptain for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Linux, SaaS and Mac apps. The best OpsCaptain alternative is Heroku. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OpenShift or Google App Engine. Other great apps like OpsCaptain are Dokku, Cloudways, Qovery and Porter.
Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.

Red Hat OpenShift is a trusted, comprehensive, and consistent platform to develop, modernize, and deploy applications at scale, including today’s AI-enabled apps. Deliver better experiences faster with a complete set of services for bringing apps to market on your choice of infrastructure.

Google App Engine is a free* platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. App Engine offers fast development and deployment; simple administration, with no need to worry about hardware, patches or backups; and effortless scalability.

Cloudways provides managed hosting platform for deploying popular PHP based applications on infrastructure hosting in just a few clicks. It is affordable, you can configure the server as per your requirement and scale up later as and when needed.


Qovery is the first Container as a Service (CaaS) platform that allows any developer to deploy an application in just a few seconds.
Porter is an alternative to Heroku that runs in your own cloud (AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, etc). Get started on Porter without the overhead of DevOps and fully customize your infra later when you need to.




OpenFaaS® makes it easy for developers to deploy event-driven functions and microservices to Kubernetes without repetitive, boiler-plate coding. Package your code or an existing binary in a Docker image to get a highly scalable endpoint with auto-scaling and metrics.






Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.




You are a PHP developer and you want: a modern development environment, a reliable infrastructure, established standards and an up2date run-time. But – do you really want to setup and maintain everything by yourself?

Scalingo is a Platform as a Service offering Cloud hosting to developers. Deploy, update and scale your apps and their data in 2 minutes. No Server, No devops, just happiness!.
