Heroku - Build and Grow Your Apps Without Limits

Building and growing apps is hard enough. Heroku takes away the headaches of patching, upgrades, round-the-clock operations, security, build systems, and even handling failovers. That means you can stay focused on what matters most: creating amazing data-driven applications. 

FEATURES:

• Over 150 third-party add-ons
• More than 380 open-source buildpacks
• Fast rollback
• GitHub integration
• App metrics
• Continuous delivery

FAQs about Heroku: 

Is Heroku really free?

While Heroku doesn't offer a completely free tier anymore, they do have options that can be cost-effective, especially for smaller projects or those with intermittent usage.

• Eco dynos work on a monthly pool of hours. You pay a flat $5 per month for a shared pool of 1,000 Eco dyno hours across all your Eco dynos. 
• Basic dynos are priced at around $7 per month. These are also suitable for small projects and concepts.

If you're looking at more serious, business-focused apps – things like customer-facing websites or internal tools and APIs – you can consider the Production category. Production dynos start at roughly $0.035 per hour, with a maximum of around $25 per month. 

For mission-critical apps that need to be highly available with very low latency and handle a lot of traffic, Heroku offers Advanced dynos. These start at approximately $0.347 per hour, going up to a maximum of about $250 per month. Finally, for large organizations with specific needs around control, compliance, and collaboration, there's Enterprise.

How is Heroku different from AWS?

Heroku is more focused on making things easy for developers. It handles a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff so you can deploy and manage your apps with less fuss. It's great for getting up and running quickly and for teams that want to focus primarily on their application code.

AWS offers a much broader range of services and a lot more fine-grained control over your infrastructure. It's powerful and flexible, making it suitable for all sorts of complex and large-scale applications. However, it also comes with more complexity and requires more expertise to manage effectively.

Is Heroku a web server?

Heroku is more like a ready-to-go platform for running web applications. It takes care of a lot of the stuff you'd normally need a web server to do, like accepting requests from the internet and routing them to your application.

However, it's not just a single piece of software like Apache or Nginx that you might traditionally think of as a web server. Heroku is a whole system built to host and manage web applications. It provides the environment, the infrastructure, and a bunch of tools that make it easy to deploy, run, and scale your app.

What should I use Heroku for?

If you've got a web application and you want a streamlined way to deploy it, manage it, and scale it without getting bogged down in server administration, Heroku is worth considering. It's used by everyone from individual developers working on side projects to larger teams and businesses running important applications. It lets you deliver your web applications in a way that works best for you, without having to become a cloud infrastructure expert overnight.

Who is using Heroku?

Heroku is a popular choice for a wide range of people and companies who are building and running web applications, like:

• Individual developers
• Software engineers
• Startups
• Small businesses
• Larger enterprises