Heroku

Heroku Review

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Heroku facilitates rapid integration with modern technologies like NodeJS, MongoDB, and Git, providing a user-friendly experience. Simply follow the provided guidelines to upload your code effortlessly. The platform boasts thorough documentation, ensuring a straightforward and accessible experience for all users.

Nachteile:

The pricing is a little high relative to some competitors.

A Powerful Application Development Solution

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I like the container security features and also the collaboration features With Heroku, application development has never been this easy

Nachteile:

With Heroku, you only need to have some experience and no issues.

Evil UX patterns

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The ability to delete my account after all the money has been transferred from my account.

Nachteile:

The misleading pricing and hidden costs.

Easiest Way to Get Started

Kommentare: Despite the minor drawbacks, my overall experience with Heroku has been great. The platform's ease of use, coupled with its extensive plugin ecosystem, has made it a top choice for hosting and deploying my applications. It has significantly streamlined my development process and allowed me to focus on building quality software without getting bogged down in infrastructure complexities.

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One of the standout features of Heroku is its user-friendly nature. The platform provides a seamless experience, even for those who are new to hosting applications. Additionally, the vast plugin ecosystem offers a wide range of options for extending the functionality of my applications, making it convenient to incorporate additional services and features without much hassle.

Nachteile:

some of the core plugins, like Postgres, could benefit from more flexibility. Adjusting certain configurations or customizing the setup can be a bit limited, which may be a drawback for users with specific requirements.Another aspect I found less appealing is the recent involvement of Salesforce in the billing process. This shift towards an enterprise-focused approach may not be ideal for small businesses or startups looking for a more agile and flexible billing solution.

New to cloud development? Heroku is a great place to start with low startup cost to scale up

Kommentare: Mostly positive. Before steering folks towards Azure/AWS, I would refer them to try out Heroku first to wet their feet.

Vorteile:

I was up and running in about an hour. I didn't understand very much about cloud ops, or deployments in the cloud and they made it simple enough to use--even interesting. I love the company behind Heroku; their vision is leading the CI/CD industry with affordable and scalable web development.

Nachteile:

Dynamos were just plain confusing. Coming as someone from a pure client/server architecture background who'd never worked in the cloud, it seemed a little scary. Heroku (at the time ) didn't offer a lot of training or documentation on how their pay-to-play model worked. Thankfully, they had a free tier, but I'm not sure it's around anymore :(

Great PaaS solution for early stage startups

Vorteile:

It's really easy to get things up and running on Heroku. It is no frills, but also very straightforward. It just works.

Nachteile:

I would love if it had native support for cron jobs. They have apps you can add to support cron jobs, but they are expensive.

My Experience With Heroku

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I like the container security features The software basically makes application development easy

Nachteile:

It served us well. However, new users needs thorough training

A pratical paaS to deploy, manage and scale applications

Kommentare: Heroku's support for multiple programming languages and its integration with popular tools such as Git and GitHub make it a flexible and convenient platform for us (developers)

Vorteile:

One of the things I like most about Heroku is its simplicity and ease of use. With just a few clicks, developers can deploy their applications to the cloud without having to worry about server configuration or infrastructure management. Heroku's managed services also make it easy to add functionality like databases, caching, and background workers to applications.

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One potential limitation is the lack of control over the underlying infrastructure. Like control over the servers and operating systems running the applications.

Excellent Hosting Platform

Vorteile:

I would say the ease of usage without much ambiguity is a catch for me. Have hosted a couple of web applications during the days of the free tier and also most recently but overall, it's a good experience.

Nachteile:

Within the context of my usage, there's not much to like least about it.

Great Hosting Option

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I like that it lets you host various languages. I mostly use it to host node based application and it does the job really well. I also really like that it integrates with github quite well.

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I didn't like that they removed the free trial. Also, it can get expensive for larger applications.

A variety of integrations and add-ons are available through Heroku, which can improve functionality.

Kommentare: For developers looking for a straightforward, scalable platform for creating, distributing, and maintaining web apps, Heroku is a good option overall. The platform has certain potential shortcomings, yet developers frequently choose it because of how user-friendly and scalable it is.

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Heroku's simplicity of use is one of its best qualities. It's a terrific option for developers who prefer to concentrate on creating their applications rather than worrying about infrastructure because users can rapidly set up and deploy their applications with just a few clicks. Heroku's capacity to scale is an additional benefit. According to user needs, users may easily scale up or down their applications, and Heroku will take care of the necessary infrastructure changes automatically.

Nachteile:

Control is restricted since Heroku abstracts away a lot of the supporting infrastructure, which might reduce the amount of control developers have over their apps. This can worry developers who seek more precise control over their infrastructure or who have sophisticated needs that Heroku's platform might not be able to adequately accommodate.

Host your project here for FREE

Vorteile:

Version control and building and managing the project through CLI or GitHub with a very seamless process.

Nachteile:

Sometimes GitHub pushed or deployed is not deployed through Heroku showing errors like Something went wrong which should be checked or solved.

Heroku is really a very best hosting/deployment web server

Kommentare: I'm really very happy to use Heroku in my daily vision.

Vorteile:

Heroku is really very easy to use and can deploy the application very quick.

Nachteile:

It will be very good if we can see the code/files in it.

Easy to use

Kommentare: Heroku is a powerful and user-friendly platform that makes it easy for developers to build, deploy, and manage their applications. While it may not be the cheapest option available, its extensive feature set and flexibility make it well worth considering for any development team.

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One of the key benefits of Heroku is its ease of use. Developers can quickly get started by simply pushing their code to the platform using Git, without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. Heroku also provides a range of pre-configured build packs and add-ons that make it easy to add additional functionality to your application.Another strength of Heroku is its flexibility. It supports a wide range of programming languages and frameworks, including Ruby, Java, Node.js, Python, and Go. This means that developers can choose the tools and technologies that best fit their needs, without being locked into a specific stack.

Nachteile:

Heroku can be somewhat expensive compared to other PaaS options. Its pricing model is based on the amount of resources (e.g. memory, CPU) used by your application, and can quickly add up as your application grows and scales. Additionally, some developers may find the platform to be too opinionated, as it imposes certain constraints and limitations on how applications can be built and deployed.

Great Platform as a Service Offering

Kommentare: I use Heroku to deploy and host several web applications I’ve built for clients. Some are PHP & Laravel and some are Python & Django. I make use of the Postgres add on for all of them as well as the Cloudinary add on for a few.

Vorteile:

Push to deploy or build out a full development lifecycle pipeline - Heroku provides all the features you need to make it all easy no matter your processes.

Nachteile:

Teams requires paid tier applications and could be free to make collaboration a little easier. It would also be nice to see a GitLab integration added.

Simple product for easy rollup

Kommentare: Heroku is great for startups with minimal (or zero) devops/infrastructure.

Vorteile:

The easiness of the process for deploying is remarkable

Nachteile:

Keeping things very simple, like deployments, comes with the cost of the lack of customization in some basic aspects, such as customizing a Docker deplyment (i.e. deploying a certaing tag of an image)

The most elegant Platform as a Service

Kommentare: Great for someone starting out and deploying their first webapp, and great as a service overall. I cannot immediately recommend it to larger organizations though without looking deeper into the potential cost first.

Vorteile:

Heroku is really easy and out of your way as a developer. Setup and deployment is fast, and integrating add-ons is a breeze. I enjoy using Heroku more than any other similar platform as a service. If it were slightly cheaper, we would always use it.

Nachteile:

Unfortunately we do not use Heroku for every project because it does have a high cost. While it is my favorite to use, sometimes it feels like the smarter decision to give up a little bit of the elegant design in exchange for a significant savings in cost. The introduction of Hobby dynos awhile back made Heroku a great starting point for fresh apps, but depending on how many users we plan on having, sometimes the cost of staying on Heroku will quickly eclipse other platform as a service options which while less elegant, still get the job done.

Go Somewhere Else!

Kommentare: Heroku has refused to dialogue despite us giving them several chances over the half of the decade. So they've blown it. So time to say our official good byes.

Vorteile:

Not really anything that stood out too much.

Nachteile:

We have a long list but will give the short story. We are never coming back to this company again for multiple reasons which we addressed to them several times for the past 4-5 years. Employees completely blew us off, and if they even did answer on some rare occassion, they woud send out derogatory and antagonistic communications. This group refused to use phone, so the limited accessbility was only with email, when they would always pickle us back and forth to differing departments, not finding any solutions for us. Although we continued to warn them that if they do not improve their prices, features, and attitude and professionalism, they still ignored us. So a promise is a promise: they are never getting a single email from me ever again, although they still send me antagonistic emails to us, rather than simply helping us- you know, the ones paything THEM for their salaries. They are so lucky to have their jobs still? They don't even deserve to be in the workforce! And to this day, they still insist on sending harassing emails to us despite the fact that we have now officially blocked them TWICE. And they wonder why they don't get respect from us. Treat us like your toilets, Heroku had better believe they will have to suffer the consequences and then some. Trust and respect are earned, not given. Good bye and best of luck to you. Go somewhere else. This group is full of harassers! And that's unethical behavior on their part.

Heroku, take control on your server side app deployment!

Kommentare: Heroku is a fast, easy, nice and very reliable place to host your server side apps, node.js and ruby on rails apps works like a charm. I use HEROKU to deploy my apps, it allows me to store logs, run commands on the server side, clone the entire app and create a new environment, add services to my apps such as Sendgrid, Postgres DB and many many other. It also allows you to create pipelines and setup your environment variables in a very easy going manner over the web tools but also there is the CLI that allows you to do all the actions over the console. The overal service experience is great, once you start working with HEROKU, git will be your best friend since it is the way to deploy your apps. It even provides you with many development environments for your app like Swift and any other that have some sort of package manager. Last but not least you can manage your project collaborators and ownership over the web manager so you can create your app and add all the members on your development team in no time or you can create an app for your client and once its finished you can transfer the app ownership to your client. This is by far one of the best services for apps development i'd found in years, it really reduces the development and deployment time, no setup for each app, just the joy of git push heroku master ..... Done

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To get start with the services you just need to create the app in the web manager app, witch makes it super Easy to use, it is super FAST to deploy and run the apps. It is highly scalable, you can start with a free dyno and scale it over the paid plans according to your needs with makes it ver cost efficient. It might replace your git repository but also it is very easy to create several environments for your app in no time with exact clones of it even with environmental variables

Nachteile:

The only one that i can mention right now is that i haven't found a really nice solution for push notifications (i'd like to find something easy going like send grid )

Ideal companion of a Rails developer

Kommentare: It's a joy to work with with a simple workflow and not needing to rely on a dedicated devops team to maintain a server infrastructure can make features flow faster to production instances and thus happier customers.

Vorteile:

One of the best features introduced by Heroku to me, was the ability to deploy with a 'git push'. Also, it's very constrained, but that's for a good reason: it helps me develop an 'optimize-first' mentality where I don't just push any code to it, but rather force myself to implement an optimal solution. When deployed to Heroku, I know that it will scale well and that when it doesn't then I surely need to take a look at how to do my code better.

Nachteile:

It can get very expensive very quickly, especially when inexperienced developers start adding add-ons, that may not be required.

A good plattform for your services

Vorteile:

Heroku's GitHub integration and pipelines make it easy to organize and automatically deploy multiple services and and move them through their stages of development. The fact that you can "promote" a service from staging to production without building/compiling is a game changer for me. Not to mention the large catalog of third party integrations that can be deployed and integrated with services in just a few clicks.

Nachteile:

There are quite significant gaps between the pricings of dynos. If a certain tier isn't enough for you, the next tier may cost more than double.

Deploy your code with less hustle

Kommentare: Deploying without having to hire an extra person for DevOps, Just do a git push and your app is deployed this helps businesses to deliver new features to users faster with less resources.

Vorteile:

Heroku makes it easy to deploy applications, and you can do it in many ways. either using their cli or syncing with the repo whether on Github or Gitlab. Another cool feature of Heroku is the ability to add any addons with a simple click, beyond this their documentation is well written and they have a free version that works well for small apps, another cool feature is the metrics and analytics on the traffic your site is getting.

Nachteile:

There is no easy way of switching account, let's say you have a person account and a work account, also some errors are cryptic sometimes which makes it hard to debug what went wrong.

Great PaaS for your application

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Heroku is a great Platform as a Service product. You can set up a server and deploy it in a few minutes (at least a ruby on rails application). Integration with git is awesome!. You can scale your app with only a couple of clicks and is as transparent as it should be. If you don't want to spend money with a dev ops and managing server this is the solution for you.

Nachteile:

They only con I will say is the pricing, even though you will save a lot of money in your initial stage, since you won't need someone to manage the infrastructure of your application, when you app start to grow, also will your invoices.

Heroku - Best PaaS tool to try out new projects quickly

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* Heroku is one of the best PaaS(Platform as a Service) tool to quickly build the POC(Proof of Concept) or MVP (Minimal Viable Product). * Reduces lots of service setup/configuration time and server charges. * Supports many programming language and server stack. * Deploying code to the heroku platform can be performed by very few command line statements. * Can set up the server to auto scale based on the server load ; This enables our application to handle any spike in traffic. * The support documentation and help guide is very detailed. Most of the problems can be resolved by going through the documentation. * Supports pipeline for continuous code integration and delivery. * Can attach any DB to the container and the DB can be shared across many containers as well.

Nachteile:

* Pricing : It can get really expensive as the traffic grows. At one point, it will make economical sense to move out of Heroku and go to the traditional server setup which will be less expensive. * There will be use case where we need to install additional software apart from the standard stack or run a specialized service in the server. This cannot be achieved using Heroku as it does not offer a direct access to the server. Very limited customization can be performed for the container.

Heroku makes deployment and scaling easy

Vorteile:

They have great docs and support. Very reliable and easy to set up.

Nachteile:

Some features can be expensive and it can be spendy to scale.