Item: Heroku Platform
Rating: 7
Author: Robby Grossman

Overall Satisfaction with Heroku

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Heroku to host small applications or services, particularly internal ones, where the ease of the platform and administration is more important to us than a highly available service but one which we need to manage ourselves.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy to use
Inexpensive to get started
Encourages best practices

Cons

Expensive at scale
No access to raw servers -- if Heroku is down, you are too, and all you can do is wait for them to fix it.
Maintenance and relatively short stack life cycle means you can't push an app to Heroku and leave it for years. You'll be forced to migrate it.

Return on Investment

Enables us to move faster
Costs more to host at scale than on physical or cloud machines
Great endpoint to test and develop

Alternatives Considered

I feel Heroku is lightyears ahead of all other PaaS offerings. To me the competition is between PaaS and self-hosted cloud, not between Heroku and other PaaS providers.

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Rackspace

Likelihood to Recommend

Well-suited for services that are not mission-critical, where ease of deployment and speed to get started is paramount.

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Great Hosting Platform When You Value Time and Simplicity