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Heroku refreshes Add-ons and offers Amazon RDS integration

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Heroku is the only business critical service I use that makes me smile almost everyday. I wish my telephone company, ISP and bank could provide such an excellent product with the same levels of customer service.

This week I finished migrating the last of my clients' applications over to Heroku from SliceHost. This has dropped the hosting fees for most of them down to zero while at the same time really impressing my clients with significant speed increases. I might have been able to get the same performance increase out of SliceHost if I was more skilled at sysadmin but I'm not a sysadmin.

Do you care to elaborate on how moving to Heroku "has dropped the hosting fees for [your clients] down to zero" ?

The costs have dropped to zero for many of the smaller low traffic sites because they don't currently need more resources than those provided by Herkou's basic free service. We can boost the resources almost instantly as and when they need it.

You can definitely host tiny apps for free.

If they are fairly low traffic sites with small databases (< 5 MB) that don't require SSL or more than a daily cron, they should fit within the parameters of a free plan - i.e. "blossom" database server, 1 dyno, etc.

He could be using Heroku's free accounts.

I LOVE HEROKU.

In the process of migrating a large app to the cloud via Heroku. (We have other apps already running there.)

The guys there are awesome and very helpful, and the service is mind-blowingly bad-ass! Amazing how Rails deployment has evolved!!

If you scroll down a bit, there are some quotes from Heroku about their service (and some other interesting comments) here: http://www.rubyinside.com/heroku-gets-add-ons-serious-ruby-w...

Their custom SSL is very pricy at 100$/month! Don't you only need a unique ip which probably cost around 3$ a month or amazon lease them for much more?

Yes, you need a unique IP per custom domain, but unfortunately Amazon only allows a single IP per EC2 instance, so they have to rent an entire EC2 instance just for you.

SNI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication) attempts to fix this problem with SSL, but XP (and Chrome) don't support it yet.

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