>Heroku is really tempting me, but as you say they are charging me for it. $100 a month for SSL, another $100 for email delivery and then add on background task

>Heroku is really tempting me, but as you say they are charging me for it. $100 a month for SSL, another $100 for email delivery and then add on background tasks.. etc.. I think shared/managed hosting like that is a good thing if (and only if) you can easily move away from it if it gets too expensive or if the service degrades, etc... you are giving up a whole lot of control by using a shared host... and yeah, you get a lot of convenience in return. Really, that's what you are paying for. But you always need to know you can take your stuff and leave if they stop meeting your needs.