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Their deployment is beautifully simple. The fact that they host several of my mini-apps makes me extremely grateful. But, the chances I will ever actually giv

Their deployment is beautifully simple. The fact that they host several of my mini-apps makes me extremely grateful. But, the chances I will ever actually give them money are remote: their plans are scarily expensive. I'd rather spend 20 bucks a month on Slicehost and suffer the irritation of doing my own deployment.

ichverstehe 17y ago
I thought so. Until I had to set up a reliable, replicated and fail-over ready Postgres system. That's just not worth my time.
- davidw 17y ago
  People that need that are already paying a lot more than the cheaper Linode/Slicehost plans in any case.
quan 17y ago
I only started working with Rails about 6 months ago and was blown away by how easy it is to deploy apps. The whole set up literally took 5 minutes, and I didn't even know how to use git. I seriously considered their paid plan for a side project. But then I found myself reason "yea, I'm paying a premium for the elegant deployment flow and easy scalability. I'll use an extra dyno and turn it off at night to keep cost low. Maybe I use ferret first and then if thing picks up I set up an EC2 for Solr or Thinking Sphinx. Permanent storage? Well, I'll force my users to post picture somewhere else initially." So then I started looking at Linode and Slicehost and found that it's not that bad, especially with Passenger. I'm a potential customer, I love their simple design and can't stop promoting Heroku to friends. I hope they succeed in solving those limitations and keep cost down in a reasonable range so that I can happily give them my money.
colinplamondon 17y ago
I don't see how it's expensive at all. We have 10k/month coming in from our iPhone app and use Heroku + S3 for everything. It lets us focus on getting our product up to speed instead of system administration, period. If's only expensive if your time is worthless, or you really, really want to pay a sysadmin to take care of your server stuff. Right now we're paying them $200/month and I smile every time I get the bill- it's one of my favorite expenses because of how much time it saves. When we get up to 5k, it's still a no-brainer. At 10k, it's time to start looking at Rackspace, but that's about the limit of things for us. It works, it saves time, and it lets us focus on improving our product.
- z8000 17y ago
  What is your iPhone app?
  - colinplamondon 17y ago
    Free Books- deep title, I know :) http://freebooksapp.com http://freebooksapp.com

ichverstehe 17y ago

I thought so. Until I had to set up a reliable, replicated and fail-over ready Postgres system. That's just not worth my time.

davidw 17y ago
People that need that are already paying a lot more than the cheaper Linode/Slicehost plans in any case.

quan 17y ago

I only started working with Rails about 6 months ago and was blown away by how easy it is to deploy apps. The whole set up literally took 5 minutes, and I didn't even know how to use git. I seriously considered their paid plan for a side project. But then I found myself reason "yea, I'm paying a premium for the elegant deployment flow and easy scalability. I'll use an extra dyno and turn it off at night to keep cost low. Maybe I use ferret first and then if thing picks up I set up an EC2 for Solr or Thinking Sphinx. Permanent storage? Well, I'll force my users to post picture somewhere else initially." So then I started looking at Linode and Slicehost and found that it's not that bad, especially with Passenger. I'm a potential customer, I love their simple design and can't stop promoting Heroku to friends. I hope they succeed in solving those limitations and keep cost down in a reasonable range so that I can happily give them my money.

colinplamondon 17y ago

I don't see how it's expensive at all. We have 10k/month coming in from our iPhone app and use Heroku + S3 for everything. It lets us focus on getting our product up to speed instead of system administration, period. If's only expensive if your time is worthless, or you really, really want to pay a sysadmin to take care of your server stuff. Right now we're paying them $200/month and I smile every time I get the bill- it's one of my favorite expenses because of how much time it saves. When we get up to 5k, it's still a no-brainer. At 10k, it's time to start looking at Rackspace, but that's about the limit of things for us. It works, it saves time, and it lets us focus on improving our product.

z8000 17y ago
What is your iPhone app?
- colinplamondon 17y ago
  Free Books- deep title, I know :) http://freebooksapp.com http://freebooksapp.com