I've been using Heroku for a while, and if you are doing a few small apps, I suggest setting up some CRON jobs to ping your server every 15 minutes or so… The non paid service will shut down your site when idle for a certain period of time… if you ping your site intermiddely, in theory it shouldn't shut down.
I found this important when showing working prototypes to clients, as I didn't want to pay to host until it was ready for production, but a 30 second lag when showing a client, wasn't going to cut it. Let me know if this helps, Jonny On 09/10/2011, at 1:19 PM, trans wrote: > > > On Oct 7, 10:33 am, Danaka Kahn <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Martin Wawrusch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> No, it is 0. There website is confusing, they are aware of this and are >>> hopefully clarifying this, >> >>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:39 AM, trans <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> On Oct 6, 5:18 pm, jason white <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> depending on the level of traffic, i recommend heroku >> >>>> I've heard this recommendation before, but isn't the minimum cost of >>>> heroku $36/mo ? >> >> Yeah - they are $0 to get started, then you pay to increase >> bandwidth/throughput. I am not sure how it goes if you start getting a lot >> of volume in terms of how the cost of heroku compares to others, but for the >> sheer ease and slickness of easy deployments, creating multiple environments >> (such as staging vs production), automated backups available (at least for >> pg), and so much more, unless someone has a specific reason not to use them, >> heroku is amazing. I hope their model is the general wave of the future, at >> least for us who would rather create functionality than configure boxes. > > Indeed. I fully agree about the great features. > > So I might try it. In fact, come to think of it, I might try > contacting them directly and see what their take on my kind of > business case is. > > Thanks! > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
