# Heroku-style Alternative Co-Op **URL:** https://community.coops.tech/t/heroku-style-alternative-co-op/1709 **Category:** Technology **Tags:** software **Created:** [18 October 2019 01:01 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/heroku-style-alternative-co-op/1709 "2019-10-18T01:01:36Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![alex](https://community.coops.tech/letter_avatar/alex/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@alex](https://community.coops.tech/u/alex) #### Post date: [18 October 2019 06:16 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/heroku-style-alternative-co-op/1709/2 "2019-10-18T06:16:54Z")
Hey Simon! Welcome! I don’t know if anyone has rolled this out yet, but Outlandish in the UK did research a couple of years ago into all the big open source PAAS offers that might be useful to this conversation. > [@Co-operatively owned server hardware](https://community.coops.tech/t/co-operatively-owned-server-hardware/980/9): > > Myself and @nick when at Outlandish did comparative analysis of all the major container based PAAS offerings including Dokku and Flynn last year at around this time. [Building on the work done at GDS](https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2015/10/27/looking-at-open-source-paas-technologies/), we whittled down 18 plus offerings to three or four and built prototypes in them feel them out - Flynn was one of them but we decided against it in the end. After this and much debate we ended up using Red Hat’s OpenShift. It had the right combination of robustness, features, ease of use (simple bu… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.coops.tech/t/heroku-style-alternative-co-op/1709)._