For all the people saying Heroku is too expensive: a basic single server, 10M row database and SSL is around $50 a month on Heroku:
https://www.heroku.com/pricing
Personally, for the reduction in admin tasks (which I think people greatly underestimate), improved deploys and rollbacks, and improved uptime about $50 a month is completely worth it compared to a standard server.
I don't know why the monthly bill in the article is $250 though.
Personally, for the reduction in admin tasks (which I think people greatly underestimate), improved deploys and rollbacks, and improved uptime about $50 a month is completely worth it compared to a standard server.
I don't know why the monthly bill in the article is $250 though.