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As others have said, Heroku seems like a very expensive way to lock yourself in to one provider.
I can slash about 4000 of those dollars down to 600 by renting hardware to run those services on. Makes you responsible for your setup but if you are bootstrapping, you can find better first year uses for 3400 dollars I'm sure.
At the time, I was eager to build the app and focus on its features and getting it online. I don't know much about renting hardware, setting up a system, and scaling, so I was gladly willing to pay to make that easier on myself. The $3400 lost actually bought me a lot more of my own time, which I consider more valuable in the long run. I'd be interested in reading a blog post about how you'd slash the cost, if you ev…
Heroku is without a doubt one of the more expensive options out there. SSL being billed per month? Yikes. SSL really should be standard.
You can get free SSL from CloudFlare and connect it with the free SSL option at https://yourApp.herokuapp.com . (That's what I use at https://www.learneroo.com )
Cloud services can work out super expensive for a startup. To get going often all you need is one server that runs both the database and web server, which you can rent cheaply from any number of hosting companies out there. Sure you have to manage it yourself and it won't scale right off the bat, but sometimes that's fine. This is how we ran Scirra for a long time. Eventually you need to scale up, but that's a nice p…
I had no idea they were free.
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Cost of getting one dedicated devops engineer would surpass Heroku budget by 10X. If devops engineer is far fetched as per scale of the company than count in number of hours put in by developers for initial up, upgrade, new emlpoyee on boarding tada tada would easily bet it too. However I wish they would have disclosed traffic handled by Heroku servers as well.
Maybe if you hire them from Silicon Valley. There's plenty of skilled people in areas with low cost of living that can handle the job without 10x the pay of whoever. There should be at least one such person on the team anyway if the business is a web application . Plus, aren't there alternatives to services like Heroku these days that come as appliances or VM's with simple deployment? I'm seriously asking because I d…
It's surprising to me that people think they're spending a lot on infrastructure when they spend $800 on fonts, etc. When you drop the payment processor charges (which are per transaction) they're at $7k to run a site with a lot of functionality for a year. Seems pretty reasonable.
As some have said, this seems expensive. However, I would point out that the costs of using Heroku should be outweighed by the convenience and ability to focus on features. You are getting what you pay for here, the velocity you gain from not worrying about your infrastructure. I do think that when you are first launching a startup, you should probably do everything as cheaply as possible, which probably means using…
I would expect the other way around. In fact, "for a while" doesn't work in real life. So moving from AWS to Herkou then migrate to another IaaS? That's going to be really costly. My pitch is use the tool you are more comfortable with at the beginning. When you grow to a reasonable size, I would start creating infrastructure on AWS directly (or other IaaS providers). I work with AWS daily so if I were to start my business I'd build on AWS first (plus there is AWS startup credits that you can apply). YMMV.
Why not include the cost of your time to maintain and improve the service? Without including the cost of your own time it seems hard to make budget decisions (e.g. the tradeoff between a PaaS and using a provisioned VPS). Even if you're not paying yourself anything, it seems important to include what you could be making if you were doing something else with your time.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cost of getting one dedicated devops engineer would surpass Heroku budget by 10X. If devops engineer is far fetched as per scale of the company than count in number of hours put in by developers for initial up, upgrade, new emlpoyee on boarding tada tada would easily bet it too. However I wish they would have disclosed traffic handled by Heroku servers as well.
Maybe if you hire them from Silicon Valley. There's plenty of skilled people in areas with low cost of living that can handle the job without 10x the pay of whoever. There should be at least one such person on the team anyway if the business is a web application . Plus, aren't there alternatives to services like Heroku these days that come as appliances or VM's with simple deployment? I'm seriously asking because I d…
I really dont understand. Im deploy rails webapps all the time with pretty large postgres backends. You could totally spin up multiple digital ocean instances to get a much cheaper infrastructure. I usually use one for load balancing, 2+ for running the app, and usually one for the backend postgres. You could also get away with using something other than digital ocean for the postgres. But for 6000 users, depending o…