Yes, it's the real deal, just like blog.heroku.com and all our other services. In order to reduce this ambiguity we are gradually moving towards placing user a

Yes, it's the real deal, just like blog.heroku.com and all our other services. In order to reduce this ambiguity we are gradually moving towards placing user apps on a different domain; because we approach these kinds of issues very gradually this will probably take quite some time to fully complete, but as of today all new Cedar stack applications are hosted on herokuapp.com.