Flexible and easy to use service

What are the best aspects of this product?

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.

What aspects are problematic or could work better?

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.

What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?

We use it for creating our products and to host software so we can run blood drives and provide support to a hospital. Also it is great for streaming solutions and custom video. It saves us lot of time when it comes to configuration, deployment, provisioning and security, we are now focused on the app. There are iPhones apps for doing this on the go.

Are you a current user of this product?

Yes