Re: Django hosting on heroku - any experiences?

2012-06-11 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
If so, that would make a lot of sense :) On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] > wrote: > > As such - I get the impression that any

Re: Django hosting on heroku - any experiences?

2012-06-11 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > As such - I get the impression that any developer who knows how to maintain > a stack, will most likely shy away from such a service. wasn't Heroku initially for RoR only? that

Re: Django hosting on heroku - any experiences?

2012-06-11 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
That's a good point - I think maybe the issue is just with PaaS in general, not specifically Heroku. On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] >

Re: Django hosting on heroku - any experiences?

2012-06-11 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > There's a huge difference between hosting servers in the cloud, and hosting > applications in the cloud. my general impression is that PaaS can be very nice, but sice there's no

Re: Django hosting on heroku - any experiences?

2012-06-11 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Thanks for this very detailed report, Rolo. It seems to be in-line with the article written up by David Cramer (in prev reply), and also other posts that I've read on the topic. One of the things that put me off from reading their site, is that Heroku's key selling point was "Never touch the

Re: Django hosting on heroku - any experiences?

2012-06-11 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
To be honest, I absolutely agree with all the general comments that Cramer made in that article. There's a huge difference between hosting servers in the cloud, and hosting applications in the cloud. On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:41 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote: > On

Re: Django hosting on heroku - any experiences?

2012-06-11 Thread Rolo
> > Could anyone hosting their Django app with Heroku care to post their > experiences? > I'm somewhere along the road of seeing if PaaS could make my life easier, and we've been using Heroku for a client (their choice) recently, having evaluated it a couple of months ago for a different one

Re: Django hosting on heroku - any experiences?

2012-06-11 Thread CLIFFORD ILKAY
On 06/11/2012 01:27 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: Been a while since my last post! Read through some of the archives, but couldn't seem to find many user reviews on Heroku from django-users list. You might want to read this:

Django hosting on heroku - any experiences?

2012-06-11 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Been a while since my last post! Read through some of the archives, but couldn't seem to find many user reviews on Heroku from django-users list. Could anyone hosting their Django app with Heroku care to post their experiences? Looking for info like: * Downtime experiences (how long, how