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Exact same experience yesterday. Weird.

• bphogan 17y ago
  You will. Heroku has three big limitations that can make your app a no-go there. The first is only hourly cron tasks which means doing sweeping every 15 minutes is not possible. Not terrible, but sometimes a showstopper if you're trying to do background tasks frequently. The second is that it's a read-only filesystem which means you either don't use the filesystem for your work, or you use S3. S3 is great, but is another service you need to monitor and pay for. You also will need to employ other solutions to compress CSS, JS files, or to create a cache. Third, there's no shell. There's a console, like the Rails console, but you're not going to be setting things up yourself. Heroku is a heck of a platform. I run tons of stuff there, even on the free plans with no problems. However, the limitations can be showstoppers for you depending on 1. how much hackery you want to do and 2. if it's even possible.
  • andrewvc 17y ago
    If you need to perform background tasks more frequently you can always spawn a worker process. I find that the read only FS is a good thing, decoupling storage from app servers really helps wrt to scaling.