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Heroku pros/cons
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Pros

  • Very low effort to get running
  • Easily extensible to add very powerful features eg. I added memcache and caching to one of our apps and had it live within 30mins
  • Less downtime stress (if shit fails, you know heroku is dealing with it and you don't have to do much other than respond to customers)
  • Very little platform lockin (unlike Google App Engine)
  • Standing on shoulders of giants
  • Strong app segmentation = stability
  • Easy to price for clients

Cons

  • Can get expensive quickly
    • One of our work apps costs ~$1000 a month
  • Free tier can take up to 20s to respond to a request (it spins down the server when it is out of use)
  • Can't do much if Heroku goes down (well, you're meant to have a backup server and use DNS to switch if shit goes sour, but I can't imagine anyone bothering with this)

If you want any help/tips I have a lot of experience with the platform. I really really like it. Beats the pants out of running your own server(s).

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