Comparison Heroku vs GitHub Pages

Heroku is a Salesforce company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2007. It is available as a Platform-as-a-Service. It offers a wide range of tools and services to empower developers to build high-performance websites along with applications for smartphones of different screen sizes. It offers support for widely used programming languages such as Node.js, Ruby, Java, PHP, Python, Scala, Go and Clojure. It offers services in the form of Heroku Postgres, Heroku Connect and Heroku Redi. It supports the use of third-party add-ons and open-source buildpacks. It also offers over 7000 Heroku Buttons designed for quick deployment.

GitHub Pages is a hosting service that relies on the GitHub repository to provide convenience to its user base. It provides ease and simplification in the process of website publication. The sites will be publicly available. It uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript files in its publication process. It provides two options i.e., hosting on the github.io domain or hosting on a custom domain. It is available for three kinds of websites, namely, project, user and organization. It requires users to create a repository in order to publish a site. GitHub Pages allows users and organizations to create only one website per GitHub account.