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also not the cheapest service and no direct support line…
What are you comparing to cost wise? Please do include costs for setting up and maintenance in that comparison. As for support I have always found Heroku to respond very quickly. And they do have direct support. https://www.heroku.com/support
What options would you consider if heroku was down permanently ?
If you are just using heroku to run a process it is pretty easy to rebuild on AWS. Here is one fairly solid guide: http://blog.clearbit.com/ec2-heroku/ Depending on what language you are using google's app engine could be a quick replacement. http://rogerstringer.com/2015/05/13/make-your-own-heroku/ https://github.com/buttfoundry-community/bosh-buttfoundry/bl... Another HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
I'm currently at the Nordic.js conference http://nordicjs.com/ (which... is down right now). Suddenly half the audience started to looking at mobile phones, unpacking laptops. Poor timing for the current speaker...
What options would you consider if heroku was down permanently ?
(Disclosure: I'm the CEO co-founder of Flynn) Heroku is a great product and it going down permanently would be a huge loss to the community. However there are a number of open source alternatives with very similar user experiences that you can run yourself in a variety of environments including: https://flynn.io/ https://github.com/dokku/dokku http://deis.io/ https://www.openshift.com/
Down for almost an hour now. Haven't seen anything of this scale happen in 18 months or so of running our apps on heroku. Looking forward to the postmortem from Heroku (and hopefully my app being up again).
Do they really release postmortems? I've seen them mentioning postmortems in incident statuses, but I've never actually read one.
What options would you consider if heroku was down permanently ?
What is a good alternative for static single-page apps? What are downsides of S3?
I host all my APIs on Heroku and all my static front ends on S3 with CloudFront on top. No downsides in my mind. Free and instant TLS certs with CloudFront, too.
Disclaimer: not affiliated
Down for almost an hour now. Haven't seen anything of this scale happen in 18 months or so of running our apps on heroku. Looking forward to the postmortem from Heroku (and hopefully my app being up again).
Do they really release postmortems? I've seen them mentioning postmortems in incident statuses, but I've never actually read one.
Here is a recent example: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/930
Source: I used to work at Heroku on the team which managed this process.