Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
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Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
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Re: Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
#2Heroku never goes down, and it eliminates the need to pay a sysadmin (or the time value of sysadminning yourself).
Those are two bold, scary statements.
Re: Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
#3Heroku never goes down, and it eliminates the need to pay a sysadmin (or the time value of sysadminning yourself). Those are two bold, scary statements.
You're definitely correct about the first statement. It should be revised to "Heroku has a strong history of very little downtime."
Regarding the second though, I truly believe that the cost + time savings are tremendous from using their platform vs administering your own early on in a startup product lifecycle.
Re: Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
#4Heroku is great, no doubt about that. My only issue is the 'guilt factor': almost all of my use of Heroku has been for free (my cookingspace.com web site that I use to monitor my diet because I take blood thinners; test deploying prototypes; used it to write 3 articles about Heroku for DevX).
I have had poor results getting customers to use Heroku. I tried twice, and both times the extra cost over running your own EC2 instances convinced my customers to eventually spend much more money having me set up custom infrastructure - not a good decision unless you expect to have a very high volume site (I hope they are not reading this :-)
Re: Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
#5Add php support pretty please
Re: Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
#6Is there something like heroku for django apps? :)
Re: Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
#7Is there something like heroku for django apps? :)
Is GAE not that?
Re: Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
#8Add php support pretty please
Why would one need this for PHP? Isn't PHP already pretty much upload and go?
Re: Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
#9Heroku is great, no doubt about that. My only issue is the 'guilt factor': almost all of my use of Heroku has been for free (my cookingspace.com web site that I use to monitor my diet because I take blood thinners; test deploying prototypes; used it to write 3 articles about Heroku for DevX). I have had poor results getting customers to use Heroku. I tried twice, and both times the extra cost over running your own EC…
Costs that are represented in obvious dollar amounts with alternatives that have lower obvious dollar amounts tend to go over poorly with clients.
The nebulous cost of more developer and admin time is something they can carefully ignore in their cost calculations.
Re: Thank You Heroku, or "How To Eliminate Sysadminning"
#10I tried installing spree the other day, a rails shopping app, and I gave up after entering gem dependency hell and the no local file policy. Went faster on my own server with nginx+passenger.