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by davetong
5544 days ago
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How is heroku doing these days:
Recently acquired by Salesforce and expanding their add-on range means that they will be around for a long time and it is promising that they are catering to a larger variety of developers. Reliability:
They run off Amazon web services which are continually expanding their regions. So they are highly reliable (especially after the EC2 outage in 2010). Cost:
In my experience, heroku has saved me a lot of time and my clients a lot of money. Yes, I can setup and manage my own servers and it can be for as little at $10/month. heroku on the other hand costs up to $100/month for my production servers. Why am I willing to pay this much? Because I put a higher price on my time than $100/month. I don't have to worry about infrastructure or redundancy issues. Furthermore, my clients can afford these hosting costs as I explain to them that $100/month is cheaper than my hourly rate if I have to troubleshoot network/server issues and also perform server maintenance... which none of these I have to do on heroku. Limitations & hiccups:
I've found that I've needed to employ alternative ways of doing things due to some minor heroku limitations. Overall, everything is achievable with some resourcefulness and some extra money. Overall, heroku is easy to get started with, especially if you've got sys admin experience! Hope this helps and good luck with your job interview! |
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