I use heroku for prototyping, which it is great for. I would not use it for larger projects in production (disclaimer: while also being a developer, I'm the com

I use heroku for prototyping, which it is great for. I would not use it for larger projects in production (disclaimer: while also being a developer, I'm the company syadmin). If we measure downtime, heroku had much more downtime, than the servers we have internally - and I find heroku extremely slow compared to what I can deliver with basic hardware. Their database offerings are awesome, though.