[ayb]

We're actively sending pay per click traffic to our online store and it's very easy to spend hundreds of dollars. When our traffic converts it's great but it pains me to think I could be sending traffic to a Heroku 503 error page and have zero control over it.

So, "could we do better"? I'm not sure. I'm trying to figure that out. It certainly would not be as easy to use as Heroku or easy to deploy. But at a minimum I need to get some other host option set that we can switch over to.

[bl4k]

Is there a service that will switch off adwords campaigns if your site is down or in maintenance mode? If not, there should be.

[ayb]

Thought about writing an app to do that. Unfortunately I would not be able to host it on Heroku. :-)

[mikeyur]

I've had clients with sloppy dev teams who decided to change the URL structure of all landing pages without letting me know (I was managing their PPC campaigns). Google stops serving ads after getting 404 errors - unfortunately I don't think they count other errors (like a 503) and they don't stop until they've sent a few hundred (or thousand) clicks.

[bl4k]

would ppl pay for a good solution here, like $10 a month, or a % of money saved? I imagine that with a good implementation they might.