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I've had a good time working with Blue Box Group (https://bluebox.net/ https://bluebox.net/). I've been using them as a backup for an uptime-critical festival a
by grrrando 13y ago
I've had a good time working with Blue Box Group (https://bluebox.net/ https://bluebox.net/). I've been using them as a backup for an uptime-critical festival application that runs on Heroku.
They helped me by setting up a Capistrano script for me that I run alongside my Heroku pushes. They set up the entire stack according to a specification I talked them through. And they helped me write a script to keep my backup DB in line with my production DB (Heroku Postgres). It's not nearly as quick as provisioning a Heroku app yourself, but if you can spare the week it took to get all that put together with just a little hands-on work, it's not bad.
Overall good experience, good support, if a little slow to respond, but I think mainly because they had one engineer working my case for the entire process, who I'm sure was also working with other customers. But having that 1:1 relationship is good, too. Tradeoffs.
- WillieBKevin 13y agoI second the vote for Blue Box. We moved from Heroku 8 months ago and have been extremely happy. I agree with grrrando, there were a few instances of slow responses during setup, but I also agree thats because you're talking to an individual in that case, rather than a support team. Two of my favorite things about Blue Box: 1) On the first sales call they had a knowledgeable engineer that discussed the specifics of our app. 2) With their online chat I get answers from an engineer within minutes, even on nights or weekends (they have phone support too, I prefer chat)