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Great experience from start to present
What do you like best about the product?
The team are extremely helpful, from the moment we considered moving to Northflank, Will & Frederik jumped on a call with us, walked us through the onboarding process and even helped us to migrate sites from Heroku. From there the tools they have available meant it was seamless & time friendly to migrate all our applications to them. Anytime we need help or have an issue they take no hesitation in responding almost immediately. I'd 10/10 recommend them to anyone considering migrating or setting up with the team.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside I can think of is that in the initial phases the dashboard can be slightly difficult to find what you need, this is always the case though when getting setup with a new application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The reason we moved to Northflank is that it is more cost effective than Heroku, this and the fact it simplifies deploying and managing applications makes it a no-brainer.
Works amazingly well
What do you like best about the product?
The platform "just works", build your services and deploy them with ease. Runs on our own cloud using GKE, which allows us to save on costs.
The support from the team is phenomenal, with them being proactive in reaching out to us when things aren't working well in our cluster, which is rare.
I would recommend this platform to anyone wishing to set up a quick and easy modern cloud cluster.
The support from the team is phenomenal, with them being proactive in reaching out to us when things aren't working well in our cluster, which is rare.
I would recommend this platform to anyone wishing to set up a quick and easy modern cloud cluster.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the Northflank platform abstracts away all implementation details of a Kubernetes cluster, when wishing to dive deeper into the cluster status or, for example, investigating why services are not able to start when the cluster is out of capacity, one still needs to use native kubernetes tools such as kubectl
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wish to write code, and run it in the cloud. Northflank abstracts away anything in between these two points.
Excellent DevOps solution
What do you like best about the product?
Everything in one place, and logical to navigate. We can bring our own AWS account and manage all the things in one interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lots of options, but everything is arranged sensibly and is super flexible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Northflank has replaced Heroku, DigitalOcean and Render for us -- more reliable, easier to use and has simplified our deployment workflows.
Full featured and easy to use PaaS
What do you like best about the product?
Northflank let's me not think about my app deployment most of the time. It let's me have my app split into whatever services I want and organises them all in a way that makes sense. Scaling up and down is super simple and quick.
Easy to set up, I chose to use Dockerfiles to describe my services and once they're working locally they work on Northflank as well.
Basically it's like Heroku used to be (except a little better) before Heroku got rubish and unreliable.
Support has always been fast and incredibly helpful. There's no fighting your way past level 1 support, you get people who know what they're talking about right away.
Easy to set up, I chose to use Dockerfiles to describe my services and once they're working locally they work on Northflank as well.
Basically it's like Heroku used to be (except a little better) before Heroku got rubish and unreliable.
Support has always been fast and incredibly helpful. There's no fighting your way past level 1 support, you get people who know what they're talking about right away.
What do you dislike about the product?
Builds are a bit slow, they don't support local docker caching. I know that's something they're planning on fixing soon though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I want to host my SaaS applications as a solo founder without having to spend time thinking about and managing my hosting. Less time on hosting problems means more time developing features, helping customers and selling my products.
This product is remarkably versatile, robust, and easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
You can easily deploy your app using their buildpack or coming from an external container registry. I also like their feature to bring your own cloud which you can connect your AWS and Google cloud and just pay a fix monthly.
What do you dislike about the product?
They have limited regions to deploy your service. You need to email to enable other regions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
You can quickly deploy your app with an autoscaling feature.
Happy Northflank user
What do you like best about the product?
Northflank allows me to run a writing platform as a single person, along with a number of client projects. It's really easy to keep an overview. I haven't spent any time on dev ops since. When I had questions regarding a new deployment the support has been amazing!
What do you dislike about the product?
MinIO doesn't run on a custom domain without a proxy, but a solution for that is being worked on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Northflank I benefit from technologies such as Kubernetes, without having to deal with the underlying internals. It's a perfect match for somone like me who likes to focus on application development. Northflank saves me a ton of time and lets me sleep at ease. :)
Outstanding hosting provider
What do you like best about the product?
I must say Northflank has exceeded my expectations in several ways. From its reliability to comprehensive features and outstanding customer service, Northflank has proven to be an exceptional choice for hosting our applications.
The platform is extremely user-friendly, both the interface and API are easy to use and navigate whether you're a seasoned developer or a beginner, Northflank provides an intuitive experience, allowing us to effortlessly manage our infrastructure. The straightforward design and well-documented resources make it easy to understand the platform's capabilities, enabling users to get up and running quickly, but also allowing for a fairly deep level of customization.
One of Northflank's standout features is its comprehensive API and Javascript Client, anything you can do in the UI, you can script using javascript. It was very simple to deprecate all our terraform and helm charts in favor of very simple javascript and json files. It also has support for CI/CD pipelines, which we used to completly replace our dependency on gitlab CI/CD and allowed us to cut our deploy times by more than half.
Another aspect that made us love the platform is how easy it is to run experiments. just drop a random docker image from dockerhub in our infra and connect it to our running containers. also, all containers are easily reachable via API/CLI and all addons are reachable via port forwading. We can run some fast paced "trial and error" driven development this way, which is very valuable during development / QA. The platform also allows us to easily experiment with different configurations, environments, scaling options, and deployment strategies.
Also important to note that Northflank boasts the best customer service I have encountered in the PaaS industry. Their support team is responsive, knowledgeable, and genuinely committed to resolving any issues or answering questions promptly. Having such excellent customer support makes a significant difference when it comes to a hosting provider, and Northflank truly excels in this regard.
The platform is extremely user-friendly, both the interface and API are easy to use and navigate whether you're a seasoned developer or a beginner, Northflank provides an intuitive experience, allowing us to effortlessly manage our infrastructure. The straightforward design and well-documented resources make it easy to understand the platform's capabilities, enabling users to get up and running quickly, but also allowing for a fairly deep level of customization.
One of Northflank's standout features is its comprehensive API and Javascript Client, anything you can do in the UI, you can script using javascript. It was very simple to deprecate all our terraform and helm charts in favor of very simple javascript and json files. It also has support for CI/CD pipelines, which we used to completly replace our dependency on gitlab CI/CD and allowed us to cut our deploy times by more than half.
Another aspect that made us love the platform is how easy it is to run experiments. just drop a random docker image from dockerhub in our infra and connect it to our running containers. also, all containers are easily reachable via API/CLI and all addons are reachable via port forwading. We can run some fast paced "trial and error" driven development this way, which is very valuable during development / QA. The platform also allows us to easily experiment with different configurations, environments, scaling options, and deployment strategies.
Also important to note that Northflank boasts the best customer service I have encountered in the PaaS industry. Their support team is responsive, knowledgeable, and genuinely committed to resolving any issues or answering questions promptly. Having such excellent customer support makes a significant difference when it comes to a hosting provider, and Northflank truly excels in this regard.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Northflank offers an extensive range of customization options, it does have some limitations when it comes to networking: VPCs, Load balancing and VPN connections. Users looking for highly specific networking configurations may find the options limited.
Another common problem we had (that was easily solved by their customer service) was the lack of options to fine tune addon configuration files, for exampole, deploying a mysql addon with a specific mysql.ini file.
Another common problem we had (that was easily solved by their customer service) was the lack of options to fine tune addon configuration files, for exampole, deploying a mysql addon with a specific mysql.ini file.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are in the process of migrating away from a self managed k8s cluster on AWS as it was consuming too much resources (pricing and development hours) to maintain. By simplifying the ochestration, deployment and management processes it saves valuable time and effort. We do not have a dedicated OPS team, nor do we need one.
Powerful yet accessible deployment and hosting
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is clear and allows a new project to be set up quickly and simply. At the same time there is a lot of flexibility and the option to create more complex set ups if needed. The support from Northflank is also top quality!
What do you dislike about the product?
For a DevOps newcomer the sheer amount of options can be a little overwhelming at first, but they do provide a large number of how-to guides covering many common scenarios.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Northflank allows us to easily keep our production and development environments as similar to each other as possible. Additionally the available tools are helping us to take steps towards a more autmated infrastructure.
Great hosting experience
What do you like best about the product?
Northflank really helps developers to concentrate on the code and liberate them from the burden of managing an intrastructure
What do you dislike about the product?
At the moment, preview environments seems a little too "hacky" compared to some concurrents.
Pay-as-you-go pricing could also be improved to be more competitive
Pay-as-you-go pricing could also be improved to be more competitive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Northflank helps us to manage our infrastructure in a simple way, optimised for developer experience & efficiency. It'll permit us to scale without necessarily getting involved with devops comlexity, like managing a kubernetes cluster for instance.
Enterprise level infrastructure without the price tag
What do you like best about the product?
Northflank truly does ‘sort out’ the developer experience. It makes it extremely easy to set up new projects and run them through from github into staging and production in a few clicks, and the templating language they have to support both the CLI and the GUI is fantastic for keeping configurations in-sync with code repos.
Going into our first steps with Northflank I was of the mindset of ‘how can it be easier than apprunner or beanstalk’ but in reality it's much more powerful as well as significantly more friendly - it allows for granular configuration and monitoring while also providing fantastic tooling and integration potential through their API.
You can go as high level as you want and just click buttons in a UI to get started, or build your own workflows and script everything through the API. At all times you have shell access to containers if you need to do some low-level investigations as well.
Going into our first steps with Northflank I was of the mindset of ‘how can it be easier than apprunner or beanstalk’ but in reality it's much more powerful as well as significantly more friendly - it allows for granular configuration and monitoring while also providing fantastic tooling and integration potential through their API.
You can go as high level as you want and just click buttons in a UI to get started, or build your own workflows and script everything through the API. At all times you have shell access to containers if you need to do some low-level investigations as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not currently possible to manage cloud-native and specific applications through Northflank - as an example, you can’t use Northflank to manage your AWS Lambdas. This makes sense because it's a cloud agnostic platform built on kubernetes, but it is a consideration and not every project will be ideally suited.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need to rapidly respond to client requests, quickly spin up new developer environments and get stuff into prod in a safe but timely manner. Northflank has enabled us to do all of this, while also offering top-quality support. Any problem we have had has always been quickly addressed - usually these are our own fault but the team are more than happy to provide feedback on best practice as well as application level support to optimise for their platform.
In addition, the ability to auto-scale has been extremely powerful, not just in the fact that it exists, but in the fact that the instrumentation, metrics and monitoring are top-dollar and really allow you to see what is going on either at an aggregate level between multiple containers or on a per-container level.
In addition, the ability to auto-scale has been extremely powerful, not just in the fact that it exists, but in the fact that the instrumentation, metrics and monitoring are top-dollar and really allow you to see what is going on either at an aggregate level between multiple containers or on a per-container level.
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