Heroku Enterprise Review

PROS: Heroku allows you to experience professional production server by using few clicks, you don’t need to be an expert in devops world. What is most important this platform offers wonderful plugins for Database, Cache, Monitorization, emails, SSL and many other. You have great set of documentation so you can easily set up apps in a language that best suits your needs, you are able to tune the memory usage, cover things with some environments, deploy from Dropbox and etc. By using auto-scaling plugin such as HireFire you can manage the apps, thus, you won’t be overwhelmed and it is time-saving strategy.

CONS: The price is high especially when you want to use dynos that increases performance and on the other hand decreases response time. We cannot do anything when it goes down. Also if AWS goes down the system goes down too.

PROS: Everything is easy with Heroku starting from profiling a system to switching from local to remote so you can easily perform the tasks you want. You are able to work on local Pc while performing some remote tasks. I love the Procfile feature, it helps to configure additional tests and integrations, and I am even able to run extra scripts that I will need for some tasks. You can simply switch from local to remote deployed platform, you can install various instances with a simple command.

CONS: It takes time to learn how to use this program and all its commands and entrails. It took me a while to learn it. I wish they could make some tutorials and make it simpler.

PROS: Heroku has numerous useful features, such as instant deployment, specified for developers. It provides integrations with Git, version control systems that other teams are using it. I have to say that the integration with version control system is very useful thing. Thanks to this integration the deployment is made as one-step process, and it’s not complicated for learning. The good thing is that the deployment itself can present an issue rather than the code.

CONS: The heroku enterprise is expensive tool than others. I think we will transfer from Heroku to AWS or some other cloud service.

PROS: Heroku is very customizable software and provides great number of program languages such as: Ruby, Node.js, Go and even PHP. When you use it for free you will get its functionalities and it will definitely meet the needs of some small and personal app. You can even use a single dyno if you want to. This platform offers great catalogue of add-ons so you can easily make integration with databases and applications.

CONS: When it comes to personal usage you can use it for free and you are able to enjoy great features, but if you use it for professional purposes the price is very high.

PROS: It makes deployment process easily, if you want to work with Ralis and Python framework you should start with Heroku. You can easily remove deployment barrier and start sharing the code. The require maintenance is great. It has great support service and if it happens to fail while working they will resolve the problem.

CONS: When you reach a certain level of traffic and complexity the price is going up. But, from a financial perspective this product is worth the price because you have enough knowledge and experience and you can easily move it to higher maintenance.

PROS: Heroku is n.1 when it comes to emerging platform service. Great cloud hosting platform and it is capable of extension. Deploying and managing apps especially when it comes to languages is very easy to do. Great thing is that this platform supports Python, Node.js, PHP and Java languages. Heroku offers free model and I can say that I cannot stop using it, I would like to try everything this program offers.

CONS: You need to pay extra if you want to use Databases and background workers. I cannot install the system software. Yes, this platform provides some useful packages like Imagemagick but if I want something else I need to resort to hacks to get other packages.

PROS: You can easily make changes and adds directly on the project so you can connect to Database without any problem. You can even work as a server locally using same database. Heroku is very practical and easy to set up. All its features are useful and great tools for your websites.

CONS: I miss some options of documentation I cannot get correct way to develop some projects on Django.

PROS: Heroku is wonderful platform especially when it comes to hosting, deployment and scalability. It is well documented and it is really helpful for websites and command line form. It has great 3rd party tools and wonderful set of helpful features. Also, you don’t need to worry about securing a server by yourself. I must say that the platform provides great dyno service and you can use it for micro projects or for testing.

CONS: It has some limitations when it comes to no-write filesystem and with solutions like Amazon S3. Also, there are some other issues with the performances but Heroku resolved this issue.

PROS: You can use Heroku for free so you won’t have to pay for the service. Also, I love its documentation, it is so easy to set up and to get started. I didn’t know much about Linux pro when I started with this service but I have used Git and deployment to Heroku was very easy. Other good thing about Heroku is the fact that this software provides great set of plugins and 3rd party services so you are allowed to add support for any data storage mechanisms, message queue services and others.

CONS: Herokus is for Linux users only, but this is not big deal for me.