If you're building a Rails app/api, I recommend checking out Hatchbox - www.hatchbox.io/. It's super cheap, a flat fee of $15/month, and really easy to use. It works with Linode and Digital Ocean, has Postgres and Redis out-of-the-box, has one-click installation for Sidekiq (background workers), ElasticSearch, Let's Encrypt, and MongoDB. Amazing support by Chris, the creator. And best of all, you get full control (root access) of your server, so no more battling with Heroku to install the stuff you need.
If you're building a Rails app/api, I recommend checking out Hatchbox - www.hatchbox.io/. It's super cheap, a flat fee of $15/month, and really easy to use. It works with Linode and Digital Ocean, has Postgres and Redis out-of-the-box, has one-click installation for Sidekiq (background workers), ElasticSearch, Let's Encrypt, and MongoDB. Amazing support by Chris, the creator. And best of all, you get full control (root access) of your server, so no more battling with Heroku to install the stuff you need.