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Using Heroku is not free as a programming overhead as you have to bake in Amazon S3 as a dependancy.
by wildster 15y ago
Using Heroku is not free as a programming overhead as you have to bake in Amazon S3 as a dependancy.
- LogicX 15y agoThat implies your users are uploading files. Certainly not the case for all startups, but yes, this could certainly be an additional overhead. Still, compared to running and configuring a VPS, thats nothing.
- imbriaco 15y agoAlso, if you're handling user uploaded content you shouldn't just be writing it to local disk. You're going to have to figure out how to do off-instance blob storage at some point if you scale beyond a single server or want any redundancy. S3 is just about as good as it gets for blob storage today.