Heroku Reviews

We primarily use Heroku for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and to build bots.

It is also used for mobile web applications such as Telegram and WhatsApp.

The websites are used for a variety of use cases, and one of the ones that we develop is for e-commerce. It can fill in forms and we have robot advisors to assist people with decision making.

Because of how well it performs, we have decided to put all of our mobile and robot applications directly on the platform.

This product is really stable, powerful, and easy to configure.

There are a variety of plugins available, which makes it easy to expand.

The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us.

Colleagues of mine from another company have been using Heroku for Ruby on Rails, and they are happy with how it performs.

I have an issue with the session server in terms of how it can scale, and where I can put my sessions. I know that there are some possibilities but I haven't found a solution for this problem yet.

The vendor should provide us with information concerning the best practices with respect to scalability. It may be that I'm too much of a novice, or that there are gaps in my knowledge because the product does not explain these features well, or perhaps what I'm looking for is not actually available.

At this time, we are very interested in the automation of the deployment process, and keeping track of deployment metrics. Adding these types of features would be helpful.

We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert.

I would also like to have better control over how the application reacts to issues such as malfunctions. If something is not working properly then I would like to be able to failover or change how my application behaves.

I have been working with Heroku for more than a year.

Heroku is a really stable and powerful platform.

Over the course of a full year, we had only one day where it was a little bit unstable.

When we first started using this product, we could see its potential in terms of scalability. In part, this is because of the number of plugins that are available.

In some departments, we have implemented add-ons. For example, there are APM plugins to make entries directly into the log files.

I can remember only one issue where we had contacted technical support. We found out that there was a security setting that prevented access. However, I'm not absolutely sure if it was on the side of Heroku or on the destination.

It has to do with a firewall that prevented us from accessing a server from the United States. Ultimately, we configured it properly and everything was okay. What slowed us down was a lack of knowledge on our side. Once we were able to check with support, things were okay and we had no issues.

Heroku is very easy to set up. Also, it is very easy to configure.

A lot of people in our company know how to set it up.

The pricing model is very good.

My advice for anybody who is considering Heroku is that it's really simple to use, it's stable, and it is very powerful for continuous deployment. It is application service-oriented and an overall great product.

In summary, we are very happy with it.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Our clients use it to deploy the production, development, and staging environments. Its version depends on our clients' needs. Usually, it is a customized system that needs to be scaled.

For a client, we pay for one computer for running the application. When we have to generate their bills, we scale up to 100 computers, and we are able to generate three million bills in five minutes. Before using Heroku, it took them 10 hours to generate these three million bills.

It is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. 

It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good.

Their support is good, but they can improve their response time.

We are a partner of Heroku since 2009.

Its stability is very good. In the last few years, we had only one problem with stability where we couldn't log in to their administrative control panel, but it did not impact the running of the application. 

Its scalability is very good.

We don't need to talk to them a lot. Five years ago, we needed their help because we had a memory issue with an application, and they helped by email. The response was very good, but it was not as much on-time as phone support. Their support has improved since they have been acquired by Salesforce.

It is very easy to set up. You have the application up and running with just two commands. It takes 20 seconds. That's why Heroku is very good.

Its price is very good.

If you want to use Heroku and all of its functionalities, you need to understand how to develop an application to run it in the cloud.

I would rate Heroku a ten out of ten. It is a good tool.

My primary use case of this product is for hosting Ruby applications. Probably more than half of the people at our company use Heroku for applications. I am a customer of Heroku and a Ruby programmer. 

I like the operations of the product because it makes it easy to push a change and to deploy new things. We trust the store for add-ons, they are pretty good with some solutions like storage or login add-ons. 

They used to have MongoDB add-ons, but currently I think they've stopped and I'm not sure why. There is an issue because Heroku supports Docker container images, but not if you're using the continuous integration infrastructure. I really think Heroku should support Docker images on the CI infrastructure. For now, you cannot use those images and have to use the certified ones they provide for continuous integration and continuous delivery.

They have a free plan but it only provides three hours of service, after which you have to switch to a pay plan. It's when you start to scale the application it becomes costly. There should be more scalability options for storage. It would be nice to have more official stacks, to try and support more languages to stack officially.

I've been using this solution for eight years. 

There are some stability issues from time to time. 

The technical support isn't bad. The response time could be improved but I last contacted them some time ago when they were still using email and didn't have a direct chat option. It was either email or on a forum. It's probably improved since then. 

Deployment time depends on the type of applications you plan to use. Deployment usually takes less than three minutes. 

I would recommend this solution. It's very good for small organizations with low traffic that don't need a lot of storage. If you need more storage, you should use an extra add-on or connection like Amazon.

I would rate this solution a nine out of 10. 

We deploy a lot of our production servers on Heroku. We use it for deploying production apps to AWS.

Within our organization, there are roughly seven people using this solution — mostly software engineers and QA engineers. 

Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS.

Ease of administration, ease of publishing, and deploying apps are all great. 

They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more.

I can't think of any areas for improvement. It works pretty well.

I have been using this solution for roughly six years.

Heroku is pretty stable. We experience the occasional outages. It's on top of AWS, so anytime they have problems it affects Heroku. It's about as much uptime as AWS, maybe a little less, because they then have their own additional infrastructure on top of that.

Scalability-wise, it's good. It's pretty easy to scale manually or dynamically.

The technical support is pretty good. We haven't experienced many issues.

Before Heroku, we were just using straight AWS — for ease of management. 

The initial setup was pretty straightforward.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Heroku a rating of nine. It's not amazing but it's pretty good. They solve most of our problems and we don't experience many issues with them. A little bit of downtime, but that's about it. 

I'd recommend Heroku. I think it's worth it. If you don't want to roll out of your own AWS management infrastructure, I think it's a good option.

We are using Heroku to create applications for the education sector.

The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides.

We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better.

I have been using Heroku for approximately 10 years.

The solution is stable.

Heroku has been scalable. We have not had any problem.

We have approximately 200 people in my organization.

I have used the support a few times and my experience has been good.

The deployment of Heroku is easy, it did not take a lot of time.

I sometimes do the implementation of the solution for my customers and there are times they have done the process themself.

We have two engineers for the support of this solution.

The price of Heroku could be less expensive.

My advice to others is for them to always look for alternatives because there could be something better on the market, such as better performance.

I rate Heroku an eight out of ten.