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I'm James, one of the founders of Heroku. For those of you attending Startup School next weekend or planning to watch the video stream, do you have any questions you'd like answere…

Heroku IPs are 75.101.163.44, 75.101.145.87, and 174.129.212.2, if you want to update the script to make the distinction from raw Amazon EC2.

18 now. ;-)

For sub-hour scheduled or recurring tasks, most users prefer a scheduled background task with DJ, rather than old-school cron. There are a bunch of ways to do this, for example: De…

This article contains quite a bit of inaccurate information. Despite the size of 22 double-XL instances, they were a small portion of our overall footprint in EC2; it takes well ov…

We aren't planning to provide any additional types of file storage, as we don't believe that the local file system should be used at all in a scalable app, as it creates state at t…

Transfer between S3 and your Heroku app (which lives inside EC2) is free.

We've seen a ton of Couch and Mongo apps lately - works very well with Heroku. Check out http://www.mongohq.com .

Storage limits are for database data only, they don't apply to assets like uploads. Assets should be stored in an asset store, like S3.

Correct, the editor is no longer supported. We hope to bring it back sometime in the future.

Exactly. Most people use DelayedJob to do image processing in the background - also the correct/scalable way to do it. More here: http://docs.heroku.com/background-jobs http://docs…

Thanks for the feedback. === ImageMagick We have a couple thousand apps using ImageMagick/RMagick, and haven't had any reports of missing functions. We are running ImageMagick 6.2.…

Awesome, we look forward to it. I just created a quick Rack app that uses curb and deployed it to Heroku, no problem: http://gist.github.com/108315 If you keep having trouble with …

Hey Nir, it's James from Heroku. Sorry to hear you had trouble with Heroku. I'd like to address some of your concerns: 1. Gems We completely support all types of gems, including ge…

Thanks Marcos. We were running db:migrate on push a long time ago for a while, but we ended that practice when serious production applications started moving on to the platform. We…