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No. I've got several Heroku apps going and none of them incur any costs what-so-ever. You can ask them to "bless" an app and they will give it more CPU. They might start charging for this based on this blog post.

Overall, Heroku is extremely nice to work with. Sometimes your app stops responding and you have to dig up one of the founder's e-mails (because the mailing list receives no response), but the technology is sound and the editor is wonderful. The Git integration is handy, and it's very easy to create new apps when you suddenly have an idea on a Sunday evening.

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"Sometimes your app stops responding and you have to dig up one of the founder's e-mails (because the mailing list receives no response), but the technology is sound and the editor is wonderful."

How can the technology be 'sound' if the app sometimes "stops responding" ?

This intermittent issue is an edge case affecting a very small percentage of apps, and has been eliminated in the new version to be released shortly.

Never used heroku, save for creating an account and clicking around. You mention Git integration - do you know if it is compatible with a Pushr setup? (http://www.restafari.org/pushr-or-the-application-will-deplo...)

For us, we just commit & push to a deploy branch and that script does the rest for getting it live.

Oh and I've got another question - does heroku allow terminal access for the live instance(s). More specifically, I like having instant access to the mysql db on the live server.. for situations that I need to fix something asap.

Interesting to hear the mailing list was unhelpful; we try to respond to it as soon as we can. More importantly though, we are in the process of setting up a proper and reliable support channel, which will be launched very soon.

Damn! I guess now isn't exactly the time to ask for a beta invite.

If you don't have an invite, you can still sign up, you just have to wait a bit. See: http://heroku.com/beta

ditto, looks awesome. Just signed up. If any staff from Heroku are feeling generous ... peter [\at] omgponi.es

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