[Vitaly]

It all depends on how much you value your own time. It never takes just 5 min. And over the course of a year it migh easily take hour(s) of development time that is better spent on improving you product.

Heroku does the same thing for example. They are quite expensive if you compare them to running on raw ec2, but when you factor in the time that you need to spend to build and maintain your own infrastructure Heroku "suddenly" looks like a very good deal.

[nathan_f77]

Errbit can literally be set up in 5 or 10 minutes. Either on Heroku or on your own server. And if you are currently using Airbrake in your Rails app, all you need to do is add one line to your config, and it's done.

That's a great point about Heroku though - there should definitely be an open source EC2 framework that provides a similar infrastructure...