Ask HN: Heroku or AWS or?

Hey,<p>So I understand there can be hassle on how setup your own VPS Server on services like amazon, etc... but sticking to Heroku still isn&#x27;t that cheep either.<p>If you have your Heroku app &quot;production Ready&quot; you might still be costing you 200 bucks a month.<p>Also Heroku isnt as stable and performant as for example amazon server. I migrated my app out of heroku to Amazon and got a 5X increase in performance while spending the same money I did on heroku, not to mention you have more controller over your servers where you can play around and increase performace even more.<p>And don&#x27;t worry about setting up your own servers in amazon, Now youcan use OpsWork for deploying your apps, and its like having heroku on Amazon servers plus Root access to them.<p>cheers

I think it depend on how much you want to tweak the server and which framework you use.<p>For me, I use Zend Framework and AWS. So far so good and AWS release my loading effort in maintaining the whole system.<p>In my monthly bill, the most expensive AWS service was EC2 and RDS.<p>FYI: AWS Free Usage Tier charge me less then $1 every month during my development phase.

Once you want to scale and go big, you might want to use AWS, until that moment it&#x27;s a matter of how much you want to tweak the server.<p>SUper powers and full customization --- &gt; LINODE Deploy + Deal with it acttitude to the server guys ----&gt; Heroku

Start out with Heroku, so you don&#x27;t have to waste time configuring and managing servers. You can learn all that stuff once you start to scale. Then move to something like Linode or Digital Ocean or cloud66.com

Personally, I love Heroku. It&#x27;s amazing for scaling your application. Don&#x27;t jump in the deep end with AWS, scale your site easily with Heroku.

I would start on the free Heroku stack and if it grows then move it to a good webhost, then to a VPS, then to AWS (or your own boxes).

Three words... Google App Engine.