On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote:
> You should not be trusting Heroku to backup your database anyway. Agreed; keeping a running backup of a live DB is always a good idea, and Heroku makes that easy enough. >> My question to the community is: do you trust Salesforce.com not to >> screw up the platform or introduce additional financial, technological >> or procedural burdens on customers? I would *expect* (not trust) them to honor their contractual obligations -- have you and/or your attorney gone over the contract thoroughly? Do you know what they're agreeing to provide *right now*? :-) I'm only using Heroku for development sites right now so I haven't, but if I were planning to go to production on their platform I certainly would. And as Colin says -- stuff happens. Companies go out of business, change business models, experience catastrophic failures -- being prepared to switch to another provider if necessary is always a good idea. Run a backup system on another provider's cloud; without any traffic it'll cost you almost nothing, but if you need it -- a DNS change and some propagation time and you're back in business. FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] twitter: @hassan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
