I was never sure about this. Sure, they're more expensive than competitors but for a lot of uses they worked out cheaper than the alternatives in almost every c

I was never sure about this. Sure, they're more expensive than competitors but for a lot of uses they worked out cheaper than the alternatives in almost every circumstance. We were able to support _hundreds_ of applications, scale up at a moment's notice (applications were _very_ spiky traffic) and we didn't need a single member of infrastructure staff. We had engineers with _some_ backend-heavy knowledge, but nobody who could really get in to the guts of an infrastructure problem. We charged Heroku out at cost to customers on top of our daily rate and it's barely a rounding error except for the largest of projects. Don't get me wrong, the overall issue is that Heroku just isn't actively maintained anymore and that's going to put off new customers (as it should), but for those heavily invested in the platform right now, cost is not a factor that will be pushing them away.