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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 mi

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.

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.