[koa]

Can you share approximately how long the process took you? Thinking of going down that road with 2 small basic heroku rails apps 1 web, 1 worker, 1 small postgres DB. very little traffic. Both apps already at ~$170/month on Heroku. These are paid SaaS B2B apps, but they generate so little traffic but the way heroku partitions their services or addons, this really should cost like $30-40/month on a regular "hosting environment"

I know almost nothing from a unix sysadmin perspective, but would invest the time if it is feasible.

[adrianh]

It took about four full days of work, spread out over a couple of weeks. It would have taken me much longer had I not been helped by Scott (my friend mentioned in the post).

I don't know the details of your app, but $170/month sounds high for that server arrangement. If you set up a few auto-scaling Amazon micro instances, it would give you more capacity and be cheaper. Of course, the tradeoff is that you'd need to either learn how to do it or hire somebody. :-/ Good luck!

[koa]

2 apps, same profile SSL $20 postgres basic $9 1 free web dyno $0 1 additional worker $36 Scheduler addon usage: $5

$70 for each app(Its actually ~$140.00) (approximately 100-200 business customers might use the apps daily)

And of course, bad billing practices where they dont stop charging you for addons you have stopped/remove and send invoices 1 month late so by the time you notice, another round of billing as occurred incorrectly. Have resulted in me paying $350 and $251) in the past 2 months.

Exact quote from Heroku customer support email, after overcharge of ~$300 in past 2 months

"I'm sorry that the delay in receiving your invoices caused the charges to continue for longer than you would have liked, however please keep in mind that we offer your Current Usage details[ on your account page]"

Yeah, not happy with heroku at all. Even though i can better use my time generating additional sales for the apps, Im so pissed, I plan to burn time move and cancel ASAP...

[willholloway]

You could host your apps easily with a $5 a month digital ocean VPS.

[idunno246]

You can also look into aws beanstalk. It does all the autoscaling/deployment stuff in a gui/easier api