<div dir="ltr">Hi Matt,<div><br></div><div>I used Heroku at a previous startup and would thoroughly recommend it. We didn't have premium support, but in 4yrs we didn't have any reason to reach out to support - it all just worked. (We did have an issue with one of their MongoDB add-ons, but that was administered by a separate company.)</div><div><br></div><div>The startup was a YC startup, so we didn't pay anything at all for the first few years, due to <a href="https://www.heroku.com/accelerate">this</a>. Might be worth checking if the team you're working with has any affiliation that might be able to provide them with credits. In any case, even 3 yrs in, the bill wasn't large enough to justify allocating developer time to devops. I think if what you're doing really takes off, that time will come - but that's a good problem to have!</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 10:13, Matt Collins <<a href="mailto:matt@mattcollins.net" target="_blank">matt@mattcollins.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi folks,</div><div><br></div><div>What are your thoughts on running revenue-generating production apps on Heroku these days?</div><div><br></div><div>In particular:</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>2) Have there been any specific gotchas, e.g. pricing getting out of hand for some specific reason?<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>We want to:</div><div>-Separate out our staging environment (it's currently on the same machine as production)<br></div><div>-Improve our system security<br></div>-Get greater flexibility, e.g. to spin up new environments for test purposes<div><div>-Improve our deployment pipeline</div>-Have greater visibility of system configuration</div>-Still be able to troubleshoot production issues easily<br><div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div>Our main concerns are around whether Heroku's 'standard' support will be good enough and any gotchas around pricing.</div><div><br></div><div>Would be great to hear about your experiences.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Matt</div><br></div></div>
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