And for that do you get a scalable app on managed servers with a wildcard SSL cert, backups, analytics, email, and a managed PostgreSQL instance?<p>I&#x27;m not a Heroku user, so I can&#x27;t vouch for their service one way or the other, but they do provide a lot of value-add. The time it takes to set up and maintain those services by hand is not free. Unless you yourself are in the business of providing a service platform so that you can generate economies of scale, the time you would spend over the course of a year in maintaining backups and software updates and addressing zero-day security issues for your $10&#x2F;month Linode would quickly add up to the $3000&#x2F;year the Heroku services cost. And that&#x27;s all assuming that you already understand all the sysadmin-level details that, let&#x27;s face it, most developers don&#x27;t have the time to keep up with. And honestly a full-time sysadmin can&#x27;t keep up with everything for every subsystem. There&#x27;s just too much.<p>The more I think about it, the better value Heroku appears to be.