Hey Guys
So a lot of packages demos don’t seem to work anymore, and I’m curious about creating demos for some of my packages, are there any low cost / friction solutions you’re using for hosting package demos or other open source meteor projects?
I always thought the free hosting was a key to sharing the open source love with meteor, but alas that’s gone, so now what?
Would love to hear your thoughts,
The horse buildpack always seems to work well for Heroku… their free tier is likely sufficient for demos, https://github.com/AdmitHub/meteor-buildpack-horse
Only thing to watch out for is that it takes a bit of time to deploy… the first few times I used it I thought it was getting stuck so killed it, patience is key!
Heroku and Mlab work fantastically for free meteor hosting, its pretty easy to setup, and can be done without a credit card if you prefer. I’ve detailed how I did it in this article:
I followed this article to host on Heroku:
Unfortunately, I am getting errors when I try to redeploy.
Update:
Oddly, I changed the buildpack (nth time) for another go and it’s deploying now without an issue. Heroku does seem to take a really long time to build, but at least it is working.
I’ve had no problems with the horse buildpack at all, I forked it for my own purposes. It only seemed to take a while the first build, after that it was better.