Heroku Erfahrungen

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.

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

Configuring and deploying a system is still about as simple as it's possible to be, their add-ons market makes creating and managing your infrastructure trivial, and the simple push-to-deploy mechanism makes releasing new versions easy.

The only downside to Heroku is the price can grow faster than you might expect - though personally I don't mind this as the amount we save on not having our own devops team easily makes it worthwhile. I can see this being more of an issue for companies who have both an in house team and a Heroku instance.

Nothing to like. They are unprofessional and cheaters

ones they start charging you, they will block you from your account. you cant login but they will charge you everymonth

It is the easiest option for deployment I have ever seen. And the option for addon is plenty. The option for dyno scaling is easy. Also Review app feature from Heroku is one of the most underrated features for them. We user review the app feature for all pull requests and all QA reviews.

It is a bit expensive for a starter and low traffic web application. Most of the time debugging is pretty easy with Rollbar and Papertrail logs but those only works when the app already started. If the app cannot start after deployment it gives H10 error which is very generic and does not tell anything about the error.

Heroku cli ,and ease of attaching resources to 'applications'.

gets costly with increased dyno units, and higher spec database (postgres).

It's graphical resources are very intuitive with easy "step by step" procedures. Their log service helped me go through issues and solve them.

It could keep a free tier for small business like mine. I just have a POC and I have to pay to use it, as long as I know.

Good UX, extremely quick and easy to deploy solutions that need fast go-live. Pricing is simple to understand

We found that for the early stage of our app, heroku handled it good, but as the app grew and we needed more customization, it lacked some features. Also, there was no Brazil based servers at that time.

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.

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

I love the user friendlyness of this software, very easy to connect with github & deploy the application. View logs made it easy to debug the errors, where as in other cloud deployment platform need more technical knowledge.

Some time I found it little difficult to deploy some of my bigger projects which include databases & some other operations. And one more thing that I least like is to auto shutdown/restart my application, so that I can save my monthly dyno for letter use.

Smoothens multi functionality and gives ease to use.Easily reachable and usable monitoring activities makes Heroku experience pretty good.

Heroku do send annoying mails though we have not subscribed for it. It needs to increase their ratio of using apps which sometimes on user end gets frustrating.

It allow you to host up to 5 project without paying I think that's the most useful feature it has that I like so much.

It is not easy to integrate a database into the system because the system requires you to do it in its own manner. Integration of databases is complicated.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

How easy it has been to get started and upgrade the capacity instantly as we have grown our SaaS business.

Have had some trouble signing in to the account from a Chrome browser for a time. So had to open a browser I normally dont use to get in. However my colleagues did not seem to experience it.

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

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

Because of a handover issue in the team, we lost access to the authentication app (it's with my previous business partner who dropped out abruptly.) I still have the account and password, but I cannot authenticate my login. That's when I learned that without being able to log in, I could not even contact Heroku support. They reject your email if you don't have an account associated with it.

It's still okay. I opened an account and submitted the issue. They ask me to provide a long list of very detailed information about the app name, commit hash, associated GitHub account and associated repos in that account, and invoice number and amount, etc. Which still make sense regarding account security.

The problem is that after I submitted all information, I didn't get any response for days and the charge for the subscription just kept counting. It makes me feel quite helpless. We are not even using this service anymore, it's hard to understand why it is so difficult to pause an account/subscription at least. I hope by posting my review I can get some more active responses from them.

I have the account and password, I can prove that I'm the owner of the associated GitHub repositories, and I'm even the person who they are billing to, with my personal address and name on the bill. It feels really horrible and I will recommend everyone to use other services regardless of how great the actual product is.