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I honestly never truly understood the value of services like engineyard and heroku (more accurately i guess i think i understand the value but am surprised by w

I honestly never truly understood the value of services like engineyard and heroku (more accurately i guess i think i understand the value but am surprised by why so many would need it). It is quite a price premium you pay to save yourself from doing something that is pretty simple -- deploying rails, at the cost of losing full control. When I had to use engineyard for a client, I was really shocked by the prices and while they were really fast on support I just found it tedious to have to get someone else to try something that doesn't fit entirely into their 'optimized' stack of things.

jshen 17y ago
you save a lot more than just deploying rails. You no longer have to administer a server, and don't under estimate how much work that is. You can create a server and maybe get away with administering it for a year or two, but eventually it will bite you in the ass. The question people have to ask themselves is at what point is the cost of these services greater than the cost of administering their own servers. My feeling is that these services are great if you're running a small to medium site. If you have a large site, or run lots of small sites, or some combination, then you're probably better off doing it yourself.