But where is that actually the case and your app can run comfortably on Heroku?
At multiple jobs I've been the only person who could credibly claim to understand the entire stack used at the company, from the web frontend to the OS the backend database runs on and the person to whom teams would come to validate their designs for scaling and reliability. I didn't write product code in those roles. But I multiplied the effectiveness of the people who did.
Heroku is a wonderful tool that doesn't get you the actually hard parts of the job req.
How do these costs scale with 10x or 100x the traffic/load?
1) Negotiate with Heroku for an enterprise contract 2) Consider migrating to a more cost effective platform 3) Dedicate time home-growing a solution.
Part of the reason Heroku charges so much is because their customers are typically small, but they'd likely rather find a price that keeps you on their platform vs. home-growing a solution.
That is what snapshots are for.
Moreover, if you're having someone else manage your systems and they upgrade them, now what do you do when the new version causes problems?
I ran into an issue recently where newer systems default to a newer version of a protocol but the implementation of the newer protocol has a major bug the old one didn't. When that happens on your systems you roll back until you can solve the issue. When it happens on systems managed by someone else, better hope you can identify and solve the issue quickly because in the meantime your system is broken.
I don't know what Heroku is offering, but Lightsail and ECS instances also have metrics and pretty graphs (tho admittingly I rarely check them myself), maybe it will save me some ssh sessions to manually update security patches, I was recently able to upgrade my Lightsail instance to the latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with just:
> But any <100 people company.. why bother?Because it's 5x more expensive.
> focus on what you're good at, and let other people do devops.
But it already takes hardly any time/effort to keep doing what I'm already doing.
I guess it's for different Companies who see the value-added benefits that justify the cost, but it's being propositioned here that everyone should be using Heroku first, just boggles my mind why most people would do that as the first option when it's so much more expensive. I already think the cloud is too expensive, so there's little chance I'm going to be paying a re-occurring premium for something that's not going to save me any time over what I'm already doing.