[JPKab]

Just curious, but why do people on HN seem to prefer Heroku for Node projects? Is there a feature that I'm unaware of?

I'm a Nodejitsu user (and yes, its not free, so I get that) but Heroku doesn't even support Websockets at my last check.

[zwigby]

People use what they're used to so most of the time that falls back to Heroku. I get that, I really do. Just want to make sure people know it's not the only option.

[paulgb]

It was in fall of last year that I was looking at options and I don't think Nodejitsu was available on paid plans to the public at that time. In any case I don't think they supported the raw TCP routing I needed at the time.

[xoail]

We use heroku at carddrop simply because it fits our requirements and we are comfortable with it. So far we haven't had any issues other than dynos idling (when we were on free account). We do serve quite decent traffic.