[LRUG] Running production apps on Heroku

[Steve Butterworth]

Hi Matt,

I would strongly consider the combination of Cloud66 and Digital Ocean (or another cloud or bare metal provider even).

We also have limited sysadmin chops which Cloud66 helps us with no end.  We've been using this combination in production for years for several products. Support and reliability is great and its ultra flexible, much cheaper than Heroku when you need any serious grunt and arguably easier to setup too. They have built in support for staging/production environments, security advisories etc.

Steve
On 19 Sep 2019, 10:13 +0100, Matt Collins <matt at mattcollins.net>, wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> What are your thoughts on running revenue-generating production apps on Heroku these days?
>
> In particular:
>
> 1) If you've used their standard (non-premium) support, how has the experience been for you? Have they been responsive out of US hours?
>
> 2) Have there been any specific gotchas, e.g. pricing getting out of hand for some specific reason?
>
> For context, I'm working with a small development team that doesn't have a lot of sysadmin expertise and we're considering moving our Rails app from a single machine managed for us by a hosting provider (who don't seem to have a great deal of ruby expertise) onto Heroku.
>
> We want to:
> -Separate out our staging environment (it's currently on the same machine as production)
> -Improve our system security
> -Get greater flexibility, e.g. to spin up new environments for test purposes
> -Improve our deployment pipeline
> -Have greater visibility of system configuration
> -Still be able to troubleshoot production issues easily
>
> These are things we could work on with our current hosting provider and/or by migrating to raw AWS but I'm thinking Heroku will do a lot out of the box, probably better than we'd set up ourselves.
>
> Our main concerns are around whether Heroku's 'standard' support will be good enough and any gotchas around pricing.
>
> Would be great to hear about your experiences.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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