Heroku is the only business critical service I use that makes me smile almost everyday. I wish my telephone company, ISP and bank could provide such an excellent product with the same levels of customer service.
This week I finished migrating the last of my clients' applications over to Heroku from SliceHost. This has dropped the hosting fees for most of them down to zero while at the same time really impressing my clients with significant speed increases. I might have been able to get the same performance increase out of SliceHost if I was more skilled at sysadmin but I'm not a sysadmin.
Their custom SSL is very pricy at 100$/month! Don't you only need a unique ip which probably cost around 3$ a month or amazon lease them for much more?
Yes, you need a unique IP per custom domain, but unfortunately Amazon only allows a single IP per EC2 instance, so they have to rent an entire EC2 instance just for you.
[+] [-] madmotive|16 years ago|reply
This week I finished migrating the last of my clients' applications over to Heroku from SliceHost. This has dropped the hosting fees for most of them down to zero while at the same time really impressing my clients with significant speed increases. I might have been able to get the same performance increase out of SliceHost if I was more skilled at sysadmin but I'm not a sysadmin.
[+] [-] ned|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] goodkarma|16 years ago|reply
In the process of migrating a large app to the cloud via Heroku. (We have other apps already running there.)
The guys there are awesome and very helpful, and the service is mind-blowingly bad-ass! Amazing how Rails deployment has evolved!!
[+] [-] petercooper|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] cl3m|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] tlrobinson|16 years ago|reply
SNI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication) attempts to fix this problem with SSL, but XP (and Chrome) don't support it yet.