This is something I have been thinking about recently.
I'm about to start a reasonably large project in rails and I've been trying to decide whether to host it with Heroku or Linode.
I've used Heroku before and I was really impressed, it's so simple to get started and I reckon it would scale well up to point I needed to start considering a dedicated solution.
My concern is, Heroku makes add-ons almost too easy, and in my opinion, it may become [for me] a form of vendor lock-in. I say this because I could easily see myself using several add-ons that I wouldn't otherwise, and many more that could really improve the efficiency of my application. But, how easy is it to migrate your application and attached add-ons from Heroku once you have installed / integrated through their platform?
I'm about to start a reasonably large project in rails and I've been trying to decide whether to host it with Heroku or Linode.
I've used Heroku before and I was really impressed, it's so simple to get started and I reckon it would scale well up to point I needed to start considering a dedicated solution.
My concern is, Heroku makes add-ons almost too easy, and in my opinion, it may become [for me] a form of vendor lock-in. I say this because I could easily see myself using several add-ons that I wouldn't otherwise, and many more that could really improve the efficiency of my application. But, how easy is it to migrate your application and attached add-ons from Heroku once you have installed / integrated through their platform?