> For most of the websites, currently on the web, I don't think AppEngine or Heroku is the right choice Besides instant roflscaling, another advantage is that

> For most of the websites, currently on the web, I don't think AppEngine or Heroku is the right choice Besides instant roflscaling, another advantage is that a site (basically) won't go down for the life of the PaaS. I can throw a site up and not worry about: logs filling up my server's HDD, forgetting to update my OS and exposing an 0-day letting people inject malware into my homepage, DDOS attacks, routing misconfigurations, shared hosting companies rebooting your server without notifying you (yes, I've had this happen), or other transient things. Heroku has a philosophy that an app should effectively run forever without maintenance on their platform, but I can't find a link to that now.