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Startup Heroku (YC W08) Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps

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Re: Startup Heroku (YC W08) Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps

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Post by mark_l_watson »

I'm writing an article for DevX as we speak for Heroku deployments.

I think that Heroku is a good alternative for some applications where saving money by managing your own EC2s is offset by decreased development and admin costs. I'm also writing about Heroku deployments that use remote CouchDB or MongoDB services.

Re: Startup Heroku (YC W08) Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps

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Post by callmeed »

Perhaps this isn't the best place to say this, but since Heroku is a YC company, maybe someone is listening:

I want to use Heroku for some upcoming projects, however they require the uploading of high-res images. Every time I've tested things on their free plan:

- Uploads over 5mb cause errors 50% of the time

- Some ImageMagick functions don't seem to be available

Are these limitations that paying plans don't experience? Or are my needs simply out of the scope of Heroku's target market?

I want to give you my money :) ... (BTW, congrats on all the growth)

Re: Startup Heroku (YC W08) Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps

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Post by nudded »

callmeed wrote: post #4

Perhaps this isn't the best place to say this, but since Heroku is a YC company, maybe someone is listening: I want to use Heroku for some upcoming projects, however they require the uploading of high-res images. Every time I've tested things on their free plan: - Uploads over 5mb cause errors 50% of the time - Some ImageMagick functions don't seem to be available Are these limitations that paying plans don't experie…

> - Uploads over 5mb cause errors 50% of the time

the free plan only has 5mb of storage

Re: Startup Heroku (YC W08) Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps

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Post by jot »

callmeed wrote: post #4

Perhaps this isn't the best place to say this, but since Heroku is a YC company, maybe someone is listening: I want to use Heroku for some upcoming projects, however they require the uploading of high-res images. Every time I've tested things on their free plan: - Uploads over 5mb cause errors 50% of the time - Some ImageMagick functions don't seem to be available Are these limitations that paying plans don't experie…

I use direct uploads to S3 to get around this. It works much better as a long term solution and you can easily do image processing somewhere else in the background.

Re: Startup Heroku (YC W08) Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps

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Post by jamesheroku »

callmeed wrote: post #4

Perhaps this isn't the best place to say this, but since Heroku is a YC company, maybe someone is listening: I want to use Heroku for some upcoming projects, however they require the uploading of high-res images. Every time I've tested things on their free plan: - Uploads over 5mb cause errors 50% of the time - Some ImageMagick functions don't seem to be available Are these limitations that paying plans don't experie…

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 6.2.4 (will be updated to 6.3 sometime soon), so you might check that, and also be sure you aren't trying to use custom-compiled options. If you still have trouble, open a ticket and we'll take care of it: http://support.heroku.com/tickets/new

=== Uploads

We also have thousands of apps doing large file uploads. They should be done as described here: http://docs.heroku.com/s3

Specifically, for larger uploads (we recommend for anything bigger than 4MB), it's wise not to run the upload direct to a dyno, tying up one of your app servers and risking a timeout - it's just not a scalable way to do it. A good pattern is to upload direct to S3 instead, as directed at the bottom of the page. We recommend the S3 SWF Upload plugin: http://github.com/GreenAsJade/s3-swf-upload-plugin/tree/mast...

Re: Startup Heroku (YC W08) Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps

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Post by jamesheroku »

jot wrote: post #6
callmeed wrote: post #4

Perhaps this isn't the best place to say this, but since Heroku is a YC company, maybe someone is listening: I want to use Heroku for some upcoming projects, however they require the uploading of high-res images. Every time I've tested things on their free plan: - Uploads over 5mb cause errors 50% of the time - Some ImageMagick functions don't seem to be available Are these limitations that paying plans don't experie…

I use direct uploads to S3 to get around this. It works much better as a long term solution and you can easily do image processing somewhere else in the background.

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.heroku.com/delayed-job

Re: Startup Heroku (YC W08) Now Hosting 40,000+ Apps

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Post by jamesheroku »

asdf333 wrote: post #8

Are they still supporting the herokugarden editor? That thing was awesome since designers could get started w/o installing anything at all. Feels like they are no longer supporting that. Is that right?

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