Thanks GreenAsJade. I was hoping to get a response from the Heroku people. I am also interested if they offer any kind of support at least in this forum.
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM, GreenAsJade <[email protected]>wrote: > > I'm a mere user, but I can share my experience > > > 1. I will have a lot of assets (pics and videos) which I will be > > storing in S3. Is there a bandwidth charge from Heroku to upload these > > files to S3? > > There appears to be no charge for the bandwidth as such. > > However, there is a file size limit: 10MB. > > In order to upload bigger files than this, your app on Heroku needs to > arrange for direct upload to > S3. > > I ended up using s3_swf_upload_plugin, which I had to hack fairly > heavily to get it doing what I wanted. The final version of the > plugin I ended up using is here: > > http://github.com/GreenAsJade/s3-swf-upload-plugin/tree/master > > If you find an easier/better way, I'd love to hear about it. > > The other thing to be aware of is the just-recently-discussed "dynos" > or "number of parallel requests that can be serviced". I'm not 100% > certain, but I have a feeling this will limit your bandwidth as well - > there's only so much you can do if you are only serving one user at > once. > > Actually - it's a good question: is the dyno consumed while uploading > is happening? > > > > 4. My application uses email to send different types of notifications > > to the users. What are the options of setting up mailing in Heroku? > > I believe that once your account is verified, you will be able to send > email from the app. It works for me. > > > 5. Security. I understand that Heroku manages everything, including > > security. What is the procedure in case there is need to audit a user > > and check the access log? Would it be possible to describe more the > > security auditing mechanism that you have to offer > > I'm not aware of there being anything more than described here: > > http://docs.heroku.com/logs-exceptions > > Your app can log access to it's own satisfaction, can't it? > > GaJ > > > > -- Andrei Erdoss --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
