I'm a long-time Heroku user (I've also written about them quite a bit, and published a book on the topic). In my opinion, Heroku is still, without a doubt, the

I'm a long-time Heroku user (I've also written about them quite a bit, and published a book on the topic). In my opinion, Heroku is still, without a doubt, the best hosting option around for production apps. I've worked and built enormous projects in the past and hosted them myself (on hardware, and on providers directly (Rackspace, AWS)), but have always had more headaches, wasted time, and downtime when doing things myself (and with a team) then when I'm using Heroku. Regardless of the occasional incident Heroku has, I'm still 100% a loving user. The people over there work super hard on tons of stuff, and do a great job at keeping millions of applications up. Keep at it! <3