Two quick Heroku recommendations that wouldn't fix all (any?) of these issues, but would at least make them more palatable. 1. Change your default heroku error

Two quick Heroku recommendations that wouldn't fix all (any?) of these issues, but would at least make them more palatable. 1. Change your default heroku error pages. From this: http://s3.amazonaws.com/heroku_pages/error.html http://s3.amazonaws.com/heroku_pages/error.html and this: http://s3.amazonaws.com/heroku_pages/maintenance.html http://s3.amazonaws.com/heroku_pages/maintenance.html to something else (in the app settings tab). 2. Keep a staging instance up and running with a cloned database so that you can avoid random heroku-created errors in production.