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Heroku Sees 50 Percent Increase in Apps Since November

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Considering the quality of service they offer, it's no surprise.

Am I the only one that found this article poorly researched and misleading? It mentioned that using "cloud servers" lets you quickly fix bugs, rather than having to "rebuild" your code before you fix the bugs. How does that have anything to do with cloud services? Secondly, I'd like to know how many of the apps that Heroku hosts are actually production apps. I know I host at least 15 apps on Heroku, but all of them don't have any paid addons, they have one dyno, and none of them are actually the production server for the application.

Secondly, I'd like to know how many of the apps that Heroku hosts are actually production apps.

Agreed. Because of Heroku's unreasonable pricing, I see it as a feasible service only for staging and development. Without deep pockets, I would never want to host a potentially popular app on Heroku since I could never afford to scale it there. And because I don't want to have to go to the trouble of reengineering something after it's been developed to move it elsewhere, I would rather build it elsewhere from the start.

What about how heroku is designed would require re-engineering if you move it elsewhere?

Rails + SQL + Memcached = the most standard stack you can build, aside from the fact that they use Postgres. Most of the addons aren't too hard to setup oneself either.

I love Heroku but I subscribe what you are saying. It's too expensive scaling an app on Heroku. I really hope they decrease the prices.

I want more NoSQL options on Heroku. I want CouchDB. I want Voldemort. I want to be able to stuff them directly from Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

I just migrated one of my applications to Heroku yesterday... So far I've been very happy with it! I only needed to change one line of application code and remove my old config files to get everything working.

The interesting part for me is that with aggressive caching I can run my application(s) on their free service with very few hassles. That's great for me as it gives me the chance to spend the money on advertising instead of hosting, where I'll actually see a return.

Hopefully sometime down the line I can start paying for the service to thank Heroku for their awesome work!

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