Been using EngineYard for quite a while now and I'm extremely happy with them. In fact, I had a problem with our production slice last night after a deploy–I ho

Been using EngineYard for quite a while now and I'm extremely happy with them. In fact, I had a problem with our production slice last night after a deploy–I hopped into IRC and they fixed it right away. I have only used Heroku's free plan. I have run into a few small snags that made it unusable for some specific apps (example: couldn't upload high-res images reliably). I really like their management app and technology. I plan to use them for a smaller project soon. Regarding this quote in the original post: "but to be honest he’s scared me off with those hundreds of dollars quotes like that’s nothing for a small guy startup like me to pay for hosting." If you're a small, low-budget, bootstrapping startup then maybe you're comparing the wrong services. I think with Heroku and EnginYard both, you're going to pay a premium over simply getting a nice slicehost slice or SoftLayer server and setting it up yourself.