For me the biggest "limitation" on Heroku was that the "dyno" dies off pretty quickly (~10-20 mins) if there are no requests. Then the app should waste time warming up (read - loading Rails) again and again.
Should not be a big deal for "demo" sites and ones with a consistent traffic though. Heroku is great for showing stuff off. But expensive for non-free stuff. Additionally, as far as I know, you can't run any post-deploy things, like precompiling assets, setting up cron jobs (there's add-on - once a day free, hourly - paid) etc. I actually like much more http://www.dotcloud.com/ as it has similar concept and allows doing anything on the server side. Cheers, Dima. http://ApproachE.com On 2 June 2011 12:09, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks - I've just deployed my first ever app to Heroku, and I'm > wondering if anyone could clarify exactly what you get for free? > I'm a bit lost in the website - lots of stuff on nifty addons, but if I'm > just deploying a demo app, what are the limitations? > > And do I have to care? If I run out of memory / cpu / bandwidth > allocation, will they throttle the app, or block it, or what? Everything > seems to be working ok at the moment, but it's all pretty beta, it wouldn't > surprise me if something leaked memory or kept sessions around for too long > or the like. (I have no database, which might help) > > (The app is an example clojure app - it seems Heroku now let you deploy > clojure! - it's very very simple at the moment, but if anyone is interested > it's at http://korny-clojure-twitter-example.herokuapp.com/ code at > https://github.com/kornysietsma/twitter-example ) > > - Korny > > -- > Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com http://korny.info > "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part > that wonders what the part that isn't thinking > isn't thinking of" > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
