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
>
> >
>


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Andrei Erdoss

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