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I've only used it for proof of concept (read: free) projects and I agree with you about everything but you see a lot of people bitching on HN about the pricing
by dschobel 16y ago
I've only used it for proof of concept (read: free) projects and I agree with you about everything but you see a lot of people bitching on HN about the pricing and how costly it is to scale an app on Heroku.
Not sure how much of that is just venting or how much it actually keeps some people at bay but it's pretty obvious some (anonymous people on an online forum, FWIW...) think it too costly.
- jacquesm 16y agoI think they should factor in how much it would cost them to run this on their own infrastructure for comparison purposes at the same levels where they'll have to pay Heroku. Only then you'd be comparing apples-to-apples and then you'd see that by the time you've factored in the 24x7 system administration, monitoring, guy-on-standby for when you're on the road and so on that it really isn't that bad. Of course it will be higher in absolute dollars if you don't factor in your own time and how much that costs, maybe there is even a small premium if you do, but outsourcing has other advantages besides the ones that translate directly in to money, and those can be valuable by themselves (for instance the time freed up). If you can't make your business model earn back what Heroku costs you at a given scale then that is of course a problem, but if you can't do that then you probably have a problem anyway, and even free servers wouldn't solve that.
- vtail 16y agoMany people underestimate the cost to do (proper) system administration, as well as cost/time/skill required to do (proper) scaling