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Heroku is a great way to get started fast without having to worry about anything related to operations. That being said, you're effectively outsourcing your entire ops/DevOps to a third party. You don't set the rules, you don't get to argue about the best scaling strategy, and overall your infrastructure is pretty much a black-box.

I've seen a fair amount of people who loved Heroku for ramping up apps only to feel trapped once they started scaling their service. PaaS definitely has its use case, but I wouldn't recommend it for anything beyond prototyping.

In fact (shameless plug), this is why I've been working on devo.ps, to lower the barriers of entries to managing your own servers (on AWS, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Linode...) using tools familiar to developers (Git + YAML).

@bcardarella happy to add you to our beta testers; we'd love to get feedback from a heavy Heroku user. Email is in my profile.

If there are other Heroku users affected, drop me a line and I'll see if we can help you get set up on your own infrastructure with devo.ps.




no blog updates since '13 tsk tsk. I was excited.


We've been busy building stuff and talking with users. We actually have the new landing page and a couple blog posts coming out this week.




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