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I'm currently starting a project on App Engine because it's free, but I'd much rather work with Rails. The free version of Heroku still incurs EC2 costs, right?

by epall 18y ago

SingAlong 18y ago
Nope! I don't think so. The last time I tried creating an app. I didn't find any such stuff Anyway I too would like to confirm this with those who've used their free platform to some good use (unlike be creating an app to display my name). Me and a friend are planning to develop our app on Heroku. I surely don't want to use EC2 here. Coz Me and my friend are students and have no credit cards (and live in a place where credit cards are not liked so much. No idea why.) So we've to try and bootstrap our app with just our paypal money we made thru some projects. Hope their commercial payment methods includes Paypal.
yellowbkpk 18y ago
No. I've got several Heroku apps going and none of them incur any costs what-so-ever. You can ask them to "bless" an app and they will give it more CPU. They might start charging for this based on this blog post. Overall, Heroku is extremely nice to work with. Sometimes your app stops responding and you have to dig up one of the founder's e-mails (because the mailing list receives no response), but the technology is sound and the editor is wonderful. The Git integration is handy, and it's very easy to create new apps when you suddenly have an idea on a Sunday evening.
- epall 18y ago
  Damn! I guess now isn't exactly the time to ask for a beta invite.
  - pwim 18y ago
    If you don't have an invite, you can still sign up, you just have to wait a bit. See: http://heroku.com/beta http://heroku.com/beta
  - pclark 18y ago
    ditto, looks awesome. Just signed up. If any staff from Heroku are feeling generous ... peter [\at] omgponi.es
- PStamatiou 18y ago
  Never used heroku, save for creating an account and clicking around. You mention Git integration - do you know if it is compatible with a Pushr setup? (http://www.restafari.org/pushr-or-the-application-will-deploy-itself.html http://www.restafari.org/pushr-or-the-application-will-deplo...) For us, we just commit & push to a deploy branch and that script does the rest for getting it live. Oh and I've got another question - does heroku allow terminal access for the live instance(s). More specifically, I like having instant access to the mysql db on the live server.. for situations that I need to fix something asap.
- aaronblohowiak 18y ago
  "Sometimes your app stops responding and you have to dig up one of the founder's e-mails (because the mailing list receives no response), but the technology is sound and the editor is wonderful." How can the technology be 'sound' if the app sometimes "stops responding" ?
  - jamesheroku 18y ago
    This intermittent issue is an edge case affecting a very small percentage of apps, and has been eliminated in the new version to be released shortly.
- jamesheroku 18y ago
  Interesting to hear the mailing list was unhelpful; we try to respond to it as soon as we can. More importantly though, we are in the process of setting up a proper and reliable support channel, which will be launched very soon.

I'm currently starting a project on App Engine because it's free, but I'd much rather work with Rails. The free version of Heroku still incurs EC2 costs, right?

by epall 18y ago

I'm currently starting a project on App Engine because it's free, but I'd much rather work with Rails. The free version of Heroku still incurs EC2 costs, right?

SingAlong 18y ago

Nope! I don't think so. The last time I tried creating an app. I didn't find any such stuff Anyway I too would like to confirm this with those who've used their free platform to some good use (unlike be creating an app to display my name). Me and a friend are planning to develop our app on Heroku. I surely don't want to use EC2 here. Coz Me and my friend are students and have no credit cards (and live in a place where credit cards are not liked so much. No idea why.) So we've to try and bootstrap our app with just our paypal money we made thru some projects. Hope their commercial payment methods includes Paypal.

yellowbkpk 18y ago

No. I've got several Heroku apps going and none of them incur any costs what-so-ever. You can ask them to "bless" an app and they will give it more CPU. They might start charging for this based on this blog post. Overall, Heroku is extremely nice to work with. Sometimes your app stops responding and you have to dig up one of the founder's e-mails (because the mailing list receives no response), but the technology is sound and the editor is wonderful. The Git integration is handy, and it's very easy to create new apps when you suddenly have an idea on a Sunday evening.

epall 18y ago
Damn! I guess now isn't exactly the time to ask for a beta invite.
- pwim 18y ago
  If you don't have an invite, you can still sign up, you just have to wait a bit. See: http://heroku.com/beta http://heroku.com/beta
- pclark 18y ago
  ditto, looks awesome. Just signed up. If any staff from Heroku are feeling generous ... peter [\at] omgponi.es
PStamatiou 18y ago
Never used heroku, save for creating an account and clicking around. You mention Git integration - do you know if it is compatible with a Pushr setup? (http://www.restafari.org/pushr-or-the-application-will-deploy-itself.html http://www.restafari.org/pushr-or-the-application-will-deplo...) For us, we just commit & push to a deploy branch and that script does the rest for getting it live. Oh and I've got another question - does heroku allow terminal access for the live instance(s). More specifically, I like having instant access to the mysql db on the live server.. for situations that I need to fix something asap.
aaronblohowiak 18y ago
"Sometimes your app stops responding and you have to dig up one of the founder's e-mails (because the mailing list receives no response), but the technology is sound and the editor is wonderful." How can the technology be 'sound' if the app sometimes "stops responding" ?
- jamesheroku 18y ago
  This intermittent issue is an edge case affecting a very small percentage of apps, and has been eliminated in the new version to be released shortly.
jamesheroku 18y ago
Interesting to hear the mailing list was unhelpful; we try to respond to it as soon as we can. More importantly though, we are in the process of setting up a proper and reliable support channel, which will be launched very soon.