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by dblock 4959 days ago
I think it's totally worth it. Right now it still costs us less than a developer to run on Heroku and not that long ago we were 3 of those devs. I think having our front-ends on EC2 along with setting up memcached/mongo/nginx/etc ourselves is a much higher upfront cost.

Then there're traffic spikes. Pretty hard to deploy to bare metal or EC2 instantly without building your own Heroku-like system.
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taligent 4959 days ago
Well this just shows how little you know about deployments.

Using something like Hudson/Jenkins can make deployments simple borderline trivial and EC2 supports ElasticBeanstalk which makes deployments a breeze.

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nthj 4959 days ago
> Well this just shows how little you know about deployments.

Exactly.

Which is that much more I know about shipping working products which make my clients money.

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