An amazingly easy deployment and hosting service
August 12, 2019

An amazingly easy deployment and hosting service

Richard Rout | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Heroku

We used Heroku to deploy and host our backend services. It was used by the whole company and it made deploying, hosting and scaling our software and infrastructure so easy to manage and do, we didn't need to hire a specialized devops or IT person to manage it for us.
  • Easy to use
  • Easy to deploy services
  • Easy to add plugins
  • Could provide a bit more customization
  • Could be a little easier on the pricing side
  • Could provide better insight tools
  • Easy to maintain infrastructure
  • Easy to publish updates
  • Easy to configure
  • Easy to add plugins
Heroku is aimed at being super usable. It provides a very powerful free tier, and scales up well from there. You can deploy your code with just 1 command, if you use a standard setup, it knows how to build and start with ease.
Adding plugins is super easy - and they provide a huge array of useful tools and add-ons.
I never had to contact Heroku support. Everything just worked, or I was able to figure it out with just a few minutes of reading the docs or googling around for an answer. From setting up scheduled tasks with a plugin, or changing the deploy script so it calls a custom command. Everything was easy to figure out and do - it has a large development community and really useful docs.
Heroku is an all in 1 package for deploying and running your services. It provides an easy to use setup and run for 90% of cases. If you have a more complicated infrastructure, you'd definitely need to move to another hosting provider. But if as long as you can operate within that regular scenario, Heroku will serve you well.
Heroku is SO much less complicated than any other hosting providers out there. You can go from writing an app to having it deployed in a matter of minutes. You don't have to worry about physical machines, specifications, rolling deployments, uptime, or anything. Heroku handles everything for you with a series of simple commands.
It's not great if you want ultimate control over all those aspects.

Heroku Platform Feature Ratings

Ease of building user interfaces
8
Scalability
10
Platform management overhead
9
Workflow engine capability
7
Platform access control
9
Services-enabled integration
10
Development environment creation
Not Rated
Development environment replication
Not Rated
Issue monitoring and notification
8
Issue recovery
9
Upgrades and platform fixes
10