[mwmanning]

Hey, Convox cofounder Matt here. Great questions!

1) You can update your Convox rack and cli using the cli. `convox update && convox system update`. http://docs.convox.com/docs/updating-convox/

2) We're working on an RDS provisioning service today and hope to release something this weekend. We're also in early talks with other addon (we call them "services") providers. For now if you want to use one of these services you can connect to them using environment variables. http://docs.convox.com/docs/environment-variables/

3) Our RDS service will eventually handle backups and recovery, but those features aren't implemented yet. We're also exploring partnering with other hosted database services that already have these features.

4) Convox is open source https://github.com/convox and totally free. You can use it however you want and you only have to pay for the AWS expenses. We're also experimenting with managed hosting, which we'll charge a small premium for, so please let me know if you're interested in that.