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Scalingo Blog
Company blog · scalingo.com/articlessystemsprogramming
Scalingo Blog is the company blog at scalingo.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Scalingo, european PaaS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention Scalingo, a French platform-as-a-service, as a Heroku alternative. The comments praise the platform rather than the writing, and the links are mostly to the homepage, a customer case study, and an iptables post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Deploy, scale and secure your apps and databases on a European cloud platform. Git-based deploys, managed ops, autoscaling and compliance built in. Get started for free!
Most-linked posts?
- Scalingo, european PaaS4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-02-09
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-04-14
- Turning IPTables into a TCP load balancer for fun and profit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-17
- Turning IPTables into a TCP load balancer for fun and profit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-20
What Hacker News says?
https://scalingo.com/ too.
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on “DigitalOcean App Platform”Submitted LinK, a virtual IP manager backed by Etcd as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThrowing Scalingo [1] in here because I feel they get way less exposure than they deserve. We [2] offer a SaaS for medical device companies. GDPR compliance made us look for a EU-based company, and the recent Heroku situations (disappearing free tier and GitHub OAuth fiasco) made us switch to Scalingo. Scalingo is based in France. Their PaaS is rock-solid. The UI sometimes looks less polished but that shouldn't detr…
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on “Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?”Submitted Turning IPTables into a TCP load balancer for fun and profit as a story · 8 points
HN discussionScalingo is mostly a clone with some twists https://scalingo.com/
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on “I Miss Heroku's DevEx”Submitted Scalingo, european PaaS as a story · 8 points
HN discussionhttps://scalingo.com/ is nice too
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on “Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)”Submitted Open Sourcing Sand, Scalingo's Networking Daemon as a story · 7 points
HN discussionA couple of French-based options that I've been using as replacements: - https://www.clever-cloud.com - https://scalingo.com - https://www.qovery.com
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on “Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)”Submitted Turning IPTables into a TCP load balancer as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYep, that's... interesting. For sure real time web application needs better reactivity when scaling up and down. But you can already achieve this kind of reaction time on existing platforms that uses Docker for example (disclaimer: I'm working on the Scalingo PaaS that already supports MeteorJS app, see https://scalingo.com/meteorjs-hosting ).
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on “Meteor Raises $20M”Submitted Turning IPTables into a TCP load balancer for fun and profit as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLooks like there's some support for that already in systemd, but it's not complete...see: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8096 Also iptables would be a simple option for a round-robin or random load balancer. No health checks or anything though. See: https://scalingo.com/blog/iptables for an example.
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on “Why Fix Kubernetes and Systemd?”Yep https://scalingo.com/meteorjs-hosting
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on “Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications”Another MongoDB as a Service, especially useful for european looking for a MongoDB hosting in EU: https://scalingo.com/databases/mongodb
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on “MLab is being acquired by MongoDB”Scalingo https://scalingo.com is basically a french Heroku-compatible PaaS based on a reliable french IaaS (Outscale, cloud subsidiary of Dassault Systemes, the famous maker of Catia, Solidworkds, etc)
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on “Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS”There's https://scalingo.com/ Works well.
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on “Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS”You may find what you want from our addons list here: https://scalingo.com/addons We have an addon provider API http://developers.scalingo.com/addon-provider-api/ and we're now working with several third party providers to enrich our marketplace.
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on “Heroku2scalingo: migrate from Heroku to Scalingo in a minute”You mean like Scalingo http://scalingo.com ? ;-) Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder
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on “Open Source PaaS Built on Docker”Scalingo is a great European-based Heroku alternative, reusing the buildpacks and 12factor approach, it’s very easy to migrate to! We did: https://scalingo.com/customers/le-wagon
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on “Ask HN: What should I use instead of Heroku?”Like https://scalingo.com/pricing ?
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on “Writing Cloud Functions”Most of those aren't startups anymore by anyone's metrics. France has both a culture and systemic problem towards startups. It's been made abundantly clear to me when having a chat with UK and US people at conferences such as dot[0] that the environment here is quite hostile and successfully launching requires either solid government backing or a great amount of courage. Probably why everytime some news outlet here…
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on “Hottest tech startups in France”Have a look at Scalingo, it's a good mix of simplicity and maturity. https://scalingo.com/blog/heroku-alternative-europe-scalingo...
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on “An Update on Heroku”
