Heroku Blog: Routing Performance Update
Come on startups, you should be technically skilled and able to optimize in order to spend <i>little money</i>. If you sum EC2 and Heroku you are going to pay like 10x what it takes to run the same machines power in a dedicated server, all this because you can't handle the operations? This is absurd IMHO.<p>Also people that want to start a business, there is a <i>huge opportunity here</i>, create software that makes managing Apache, Redis, PostgreSQL, ..., in dedicated servers very easy and robust. Traget a popular and robust non-commercial distribution like Ubuntu LTE, and provide all is needed to deploy web nodes, database nodes, with backups, monitoring, and everything else trivial.<p>Startups can give you 5% of what they are giving now to EC2 and Heroku and you still will make a lot of money.<p>"I can only write my Ruby code but can't handle operations" is not the right attitude, grow up. (This is what, in a different context, a famous security researcher told me in a private mail 15 years ago, and it was the right advice)