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Re:How Heroku Works by zeckalpha on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @10:31AM (#6057834)
https://github.com/ddollar/foreman is what is used for the local testing, but also for the actual running of the app on the Cedar stack. One could use Foreman and Docker and AWS to make a pretty reasonable PaaS.

(I'm working on a S3 static-site-only version of Heroku so people don't have to serve static sites behind 3 layers of web servers.)

Re:How Heroku Works by bradhe on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @10:44AM (#6057913)
> S3 static-site-only version of Heroku

You mean...a CDN?

Re:How Heroku Works by zeckalpha on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @11:06AM (#6058066)
No. I mean a command line tool mimicking the Heroku Toolbelt API but for static sites.
Re:How Heroku Works by bradhe on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @11:24AM (#6058183)
Ah, s3cmd then!
Re:How Heroku Works by zeckalpha on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @11:43AM (#6058318)
s3cmd is to ec2 as what I'm working on is to Heroku.