Thanks for that Terence, Just a question about your last point. How do I choose which plan? Say I went for the free plan (Blossom), how do I know if it needs upgrading - does it crash, do I get an email warning or does it just increase as needed and then I get charged?
cheers, DAZ On Mar 8, 8:38 pm, Terence Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Answers below. > > On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:31 -0800, DAZ wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm planning on launching a production site using Heroku, but have a > > few questions: > > > 1) Are sites that are hosted on Heroku backed up or do I have to do it > > manually - what is the procedure for doing this? > > You have to do it manually. Heroku provides bundles which will backup > both the git repo code and the database which you can download as a > archive. http://docs.heroku.com/backups > > There are scripts about for backing this up to s3 as well. > > > 2) Is the database backed up as well? > > 3) How does the pricing work? This site has around 500 unique visitors > > a day, generating 4000 hits. It is a basic CMS site with a database > > backend. Do I need to choose what type of plan I have in advance or > > will I be told if any limits are being exceeded? > > You need to choose one of the plans from here:http://heroku.com/pricing > with regards to your database option. Scaling dynos/workers can be done > dynamically from the command line or website to scale to the load. > > > > > > > Thanks for any help anybody can give me, > > > DAZ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
