I really like Heroku, it's very convenient!
Convenience normally have a price and this start to hit me. I was paying $20 for SSL endpoint and more $9 for database. Almost $30 for an application that is being reestructured and not accepting new clients, so no money!
After some googling I find this http://donpottinger.net/blog/2014/11/17/bye-bye-heroku-hello-dokku.html and decided to give it a try. I decide for the $5 plan in DigitalOcean.
I don't have any problem in deploying my application without configuring DNS, but after that I have to do so, because I use subdomains in my app. It's also good to have a hostname, because after installing Dokku you have to finish configuring it accessing the public IP address or your hostname if you already configured your DNS. As described in "Step 2: Setting up Dokku" of https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-digitalocean-dokku-application. Without this your app port will change in each deploy, so you can't have a stable URL for you app.
DigitalOcean already offer dokku 0.3.18, the latest version now, so you don't have to update it as Pottinger point out.
I have problem while compiling my assets, but after configuring DATABASE_URL to the database URL that I created there everything worked fine.
After everything configured, it's like pushing to Heroku, very cool!
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