Heroku Overview - Geekfest 2009.01.12

HerokuHey! You! Get off my cloud

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So what is this cloud anyway?

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Brief description of cloud computing in regards to hosting

A brief history of time

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Brief history on the life of heroku3 guysPicked up by Y-CombinatorBeta for a long timeI started using in Dec 07 about two weeks after launchOnline editorOnly worked with FirefoxLarge selection of gems pre installedBuggy backup solutionNot very interesting

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Addons?

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PUT ORIGINAL ADDONS HERE

Online Editor

Cron job

Nightly backup

Delayed Job

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Extended Functionality?

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PUT NEW ADDONS HERENew Relic Bronze

Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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Amazon Relation Database Service

Cost Efficient

Resizable

Full Capabilities of familiar MySQL db

Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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Easy way to back up your code base

Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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Daily - FreeHourly - 3/mo

Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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Custom domain - freeWildcard - 5/mo

Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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IRCEmailBasecampCampfireHTTP POSTAll free

Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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Exception notification tracking similar to HoptoadFree for now, premium coming soon

Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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On-demand performance managementBronze - freeRPM Silver .5/dyno/hourRPM Gold .6/dyno/hour

Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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Enables secure loginsPiggyback - Free - *.heroku.comSNI (Server Name Indication) SSL - 5/mo (IE, Chrome on XP will present warning)Custom SSL - 100/mo (works with all browsers)expensive because needs own EC2 instance

Microsoft decided to not support SNI on Windows XP

Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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Solr easy to use with no configuration or setup20/mo

Amazon RDS

Bundles

Cron

Custom Domains

Deploy Hooks

Exceptional

New Relic

SSL

Web Solr

Zerigo DNS

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Completely painless custom domains1 domain per app10 host records - free

Got Git?

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Git is easiest way to get code deployed

Good!

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Deploymentis simple

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Deployment happens through a series of git post commit hooks

Managementon the go

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nezumi$4.99 in the app store

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Level of AwesomeHeroku Dreamhost Slicehost

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