Right. OK so I had it placed correctly. Heroku is for guys that are not experienced in hosting, deployment, operations, or scaling. And that's a lot of small guys.
Where your customers get bitten is when their needs outgrow you, and it happens in weird ways (routing performance, multiple database types, scaling profile, management tools), and its different for each customer.
And you've nailed it as far as your target audience. So really, supporting extra bells and whistles for PHP is a way to capture more of that market - the small to medium shop run by a couple of dudes who have some shared host PHP app knowledge.
So, Heroku's value is really in its add-on services, not its hosting, or its scaling. PHP shops feed your every day hosting provider, so if Heroku can consolidate that market its a big win for Heroku. The taste in my mouth is this was spun as innovation when its not.
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Right. OK so I had it placed correctly. Heroku is for guys that are not experienced in hosting, deployment, operations, or scaling. And that's a lot of small guys.
Where your customers get bitten is when their needs outgrow you, and it happens in weird ways (routing performance, multiple database types, scaling profile, management tools), and its different for each customer.
And you've nailed it as far as your target audience. So really, supporting extra bells and whistles for PHP is a way to capture more of that market - the small to medium shop run by a couple of dudes who have some shared host PHP app knowledge.
So, Heroku's value is really in its add-on services, not its hosting, or its scaling. PHP shops feed your every day hosting provider, so if Heroku can consolidate that market its a big win for Heroku. The taste in my mouth is this was spun as innovation when its not.