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I don't want this to feel like an ad, but https://gigalixir.com should help in this area. Its a platform-as-a-service, like Heroku, but it's designed to encourage stateful application servers by not doing daily restarts and supporting hot upgrades. Disclaimer: I'm the founder.

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Very cool! Where do your servers run, and is there any callback planned in case your service gets discontinued?

Sorry, typo. I meant fallback.

Right now, the servers are on Google Cloud Platform in the us-central1 region. It's in multiple availability zones for reliability.

I highly doubt the service will be discontinued ever since traction looks good and we have plenty of funding, but Gigalixir and Heroku are almost interchangeable. The only difference really is that Gigalixir doesn't require a Procfile. However, if you fallback to Heroku, you'll lose clustering, hot upgrades, etc.

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