[7952]

At $3-5k a month Heroku may as well start offering a consultancy service rather than hosting. Wanting unlimited scaling without needing local talent is a reasonable thing to want, but its unrealistic to expect if from one single platform.

[ceejayoz]

A lot of their success stories at http://success.heroku.com/ are sites you'd expect to be spending the $3-5k/month.

If their platform can't handle higher amounts of load, they really should indicate as such.