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Heroku's great, but in money/performance ratio it's not really comparable to GAE. The free Heroku package doesn't get you very far as far as scaling goes (thoug
by nir 17y ago
Heroku's great, but in money/performance ratio it's not really comparable to GAE. The free Heroku package doesn't get you very far as far as scaling goes (though if you're willing to pay it's a great alternative to hosting your own Ruby site)
- derefr 17y agoI'd question how far you can really manage to scale something before you have to start considering it a commercial project requiring investment. My experience is that the free Heroku and GAE levels are both fine at the prototype/closed beta stage, unless your "closed beta" is the size of Gmail. Both services have heavy caching infrastructure in front of them, and you get as much of that as you need at any level—you only need to worry about scaling for actual CPU-intensive tasks, which should always be handled gracefully client-side to begin with (in case of network latency &c.)