[genericsteele]

This is great. Two weekends ago I did the same type of migration using Linode and Capistrano. Heroku taught us what we should expect from a platform, and it seems like, as a community, we're moving towards getting those great features ourselves.

[zagi]

This is one of the fundamental differences between a platform and an infrastructure provider. As a platform you build a single tool that is used by everyone and with it come inherent limitations. If an infrastructure provider can give you the building blocks to create a platform service on your own, you maintain full control. So long as your time investment into growing the infrastructure doesn't outweigh the cost savings of a platform you get much more predictable growth, better pricing and maintain full control allowing you to develop a product that's customized to your needs exclusively.