Their approach to hosting brings along with it some technical limitations. I recently ran into the situation of wanting to store files on Heroku but their syste

Their approach to hosting brings along with it some technical limitations. I recently ran into the situation of wanting to store files on Heroku but their system (understandably) does not support it. The way to get file storage on Heroku is to use a service like S3. I suppose base64 encoding could also come in handy on Heroku.