On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:42 AM, K2 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1.  What will the eventual cost structure be?  I know you don't want
> to release exact pricing, but will it be more inline with EngineYard's
> Solo or Mor.ph's AppSpace?  ~$50-$250 month for most apps.  Or more of
> the Mor.ph App Cloud offering starting in the $1500/month space?  I
> really don't want to deploy here, and then find out I can't afford it.

I can't say much here, but I can assure you that you'll be able to
afford it.  The lowest offering will probably be in the two-digit
range, though the higher ones will certainly go to four digits.

> 2.  Database backups:  I know there are rake tasks to get a local DB
> dump, but I haven't heard much about what you suggest as best practice
> for DB backups especially what we should do vs. what you are doing as
> part of the environment itself.

We're still refining our thinking on best practices here.  There are
many layers of redundancy counting both Amazon's infrastructure and
ours; but as with any service, keeping your own backups of important
data is an extremely good idea.

One way you can do that right now is set up a local cron job from your
workstation to capture and download a bundle every night.  For
example:

30 01 * * *   cd ~/myapp; heroku bundles:capture; sleep 60; heroku
bundles:download

We have another feature related to database backups in beta right now,
contact us if you'd like to participate, otherwise watch the blog for
the announcement.

> 3.  Memcache:  I haven't seen anything in the docs for the
> configuration for this. I see the Varnish info, but not memcache. I
> assume that Heroku is configuring memcache automatically and we just
> need to worry about the app-specific cache retrieve/expire calls.

Good eye!  The diagram is speculative on that particular point - we
have memcache in beta but haven't documented / released it publicly
yet.  Once again, contact us for the beta, or wait for the
announcement.

> 4.  General Release:  I know you don't want to release a date yet, but
> is this weeks or months away?

Will a range suit you? :)  It's more than a week, but probably less
than four months.

Adam

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