I'm an idiot for so many reasons that not using Heroku doesn't even break into my top ten list. As such, I'm not terribly worried about not using Heroku. In a

I'm an idiot for so many reasons that not using Heroku doesn't even break into my top ten list. As such, I'm not terribly worried about not using Heroku. In any case, thanks for reminding me that I'm an idiot. Actually, I have used Heroku. The major con of the service is that you are losing control to Heroku which also loses control to Amazon's EC2 service (for example, inability to assign multiple IP addresses to an instance leads to $100 / month extra if you need secure pages.) The major pro for me is the ease of getting into it. Just a quick signup and a free level for getting started.