Amazing value for a freelance/contract application web developer
May 01, 2021
Amazing value for a freelance/contract application web developer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Heroku Platform
We're using Heroku Platform to quickly ship our web applications to our customer. Heroku Platform made it very easy for us to do an initial launch of our application quickly and fairly cheaply to start with. Heroku Platform also made it possible to scale our application once it gained enough traffic without much hassle.
- Easy to use
- Fairly cheap to start with
- Fairly easy to scale the application server
- Not 100% reliable on the cheapest plan; we've had a couple instances of downtime over the year
- Limited number of supported languages
- Limited choice of database
- Integration with Papertrail for logging purposes
- Scaling with Heroku Platform dynos make it very easy to upgrade/downgrade server
- Free tier to launch POF or testing platform
- We are able to launch applications fairly quickly without too much hassle on the DevOps side
- The free tier made us able to create an initial POF application to showcase without paying for server fee
- Autoscaling rules save us some money on quiet time
Heroku Platform is cheaper to begin with compared to DigitalOcean or Amazon Fargate. The configuration user interface is also arguably easier to understand. With its user friendliness and cheaper tiers, Heroku Platform was our pick to host some of our applications that were suited to be hosted in PaaS. It also supports an add-on that's pretty handy to integrate for our build process.
Do you think Heroku Platform delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Heroku Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Heroku Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Heroku Platform go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Heroku Platform again?
Yes