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Given that ElasticBeanstalk has support for rails now, does Heroku still have any advantage over AWS for a new startup?
by squidsoup 14y ago
Given that ElasticBeanstalk has support for rails now, does Heroku still have any advantage over AWS for a new startup?
- kmfrk 14y agoSSL pain can be a major pain to set up. Is the process of setting it up remotely easy compared to Heroku?
- rubyrescue 14y agonot if you use elastic load balancer... it's incredibly easy
- sqs 14y agoSetting up SSL on Elastic Beanstalk was very easy for us. The documentation explained the entire process. It is easier if you get a wildcard SSL cert, so then you can use the same SSL cert for your various deployments under the same domain.
- kmfrk 14y agoThat's very intriguing. Do they support postinstall/post-deploy scripts/hooks like dotCloud to run some framework set-up?
- cameronh90 14y agoI found Elastic Beanstalk had extremely serious latency and performance problems for PHP5, that didn't occur when setting up manual EC2/Load balancer. I intended to investigate it, but never had time.
- sigre 14y agoI spent a lot of time trying to come up with a stable installation of EB for a Rails 3.2 app using RDS and just couldn't get it to a state where I'd ever deploy it as production. Here's where I decided to pull the plug: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=410445񤍍 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=410445&#... Quite a few people still report a myriad of issues with Rails applications. I really want EB to work well with Rails, but just didn't have confidence in it.