Re:A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting cost...
by malyk on Sunday December 10, 2017 @10:23PM
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Just for the other perspective...
1.) I’ve been running production apps on Heroku for 7 years and we’ve had about 3-4 hours of downtime total in that time with the exception of the major AWS outage a few years ago that was a full day. Maybe US-East is more robust than other regions?
2. It’s true. Request queuing specifically can be a killer.
3.) Heroku has had rolling deployments for a long time. 5 or 6 years at least. It was a beta feature for a lon time, but has worked perfectly since the day they opened the beta for my apps.
4.) sure, but there are a ton of build packs out there and even if they aren’t a little scripting makes everything pretty straightforward. Especially compared to scripting everything yourself.
5.) definitely true. But, if you have a team less experience or less interested in devops it can be a great platform to trade salary for ease.
1.) I’ve been running production apps on Heroku for 7 years and we’ve had about 3-4 hours of downtime total in that time with the exception of the major AWS outage a few years ago that was a full day. Maybe US-East is more robust than other regions?
2. It’s true. Request queuing specifically can be a killer.
3.) Heroku has had rolling deployments for a long time. 5 or 6 years at least. It was a beta feature for a lon time, but has worked perfectly since the day they opened the beta for my apps.
4.) sure, but there are a ton of build packs out there and even if they aren’t a little scripting makes everything pretty straightforward. Especially compared to scripting everything yourself.
5.) definitely true. But, if you have a team less experience or less interested in devops it can be a great platform to trade salary for ease.