[awad]

I sense that you are not currently their target market the way that Heroku was not originally intended for the enterprise but have since expanded to it. There's nothing wrong with that, of course.

My first time deploying to Heroku in the summer of 2011 was a magical moment after spending a rather frustrating day futzing with a bunch of more barebones providers like Linode, AWS, Engine Yard, and few others I can't even remember at this point. I cannot stress how magical it was -- I like to think I'm a competent enough developer but I wasted a long time gluing things together and never quite getting it right for some reason. Before calling it quits for the day I decided to try that Heroku thing I had been reading and within 20 minutes I was up and running. That was impressive.

To note, I've been a happy paying customer of theirs since then, so they've made a decent chunk of change off my business over the last 6 years. If you can capture companies and projects in the infant stages, you can grow with them for quite a long time before it, if ever, becomes economical to roll your own infrastructure.