Heroku has been useful to learners so they don't have to deal with the complexity all at once. Render is a good alternative offering a similar experience.

If you want to cut down on DevOps, try render.com

redis and postgres sounds like you could just use render

After Heroku's outage, they decided to kill all of their free dynos, redis, and pg! ugh

render pricing looks much more competitive. Thanks for the tip!