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by tedchs 4858 days ago
> We don't have the resources right now to get off of the platform quickly,

I hear people say this a lot but I believe it comes more from the emotion of fear than a rational consideration of the possibilities. For example, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk now supports Rails deployments that are just as easy as Heroku, and you retain 100% control over the underlying EC2/ELB/etc resources while having a nice management layer to help you out.
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aneth4 4858 days ago
Honestly I have not looked into it so far and hope you're right. We also use a number of addons, though I don't think any would be too difficult to replicate.

Regardless, it's a significant amount of work for a startup with just a few engineers, perhaps a week of two of distraction. I expect a bunch of "how to migrate off of heroku" blog posts will be out there shortly.

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tedchs 4858 days ago
Thanks very much for the blog post idea, I think I'll do something with that!

FYI you can keep all your Heroku addons inside your Heroku account while utilizing them from a server outside Heroku. For example, if you use the "Redis To Go" Heroku addon, you can fire up your own EC2 instance (possibly through AWS Elastic Beanstalk) and connect to your Redis To Go instance using the same connection info. The main difference will be that you won't have access to Heroku's environment variables that you're using now, but you can use a config file instead.

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