JangoSteve, Good point, I guess I should have talked about that more. Pingdom is free for 1 check, so we use that to ping our uptime app and alert us if it go

JangoSteve, Good point, I guess I should have talked about that more. Pingdom is free for 1 check, so we use that to ping our uptime app and alert us if it goes down. Uptime then pings everything else in our stack. Using heroku for the open source stuff just makes sense because we don't need addons and we don't have to maintain that infrastructure too - just our main app infrastructure.