Engine Yard vs Heroku vs EC2

[Chris Le]

Does anyone have any opinions on any of them?  Pros/cons?  I haven't heard a lot about Engine Yard - i'm interested to hear if anyone has done anything there and their opinions.

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Chris Le

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[Jeff Deville]

Hey Chris, 

I've used EngineYard and Heroku pretty extensively now, so I can compare those 2.  EngineYard isn't _nearly_ as developed a PaaS as Heroku.  It's a much thinner wrapper around AWS.  I suppose that can be either an advantage or a disadvantage depending on your proclivities, but I'd personally recommend starting with Heroku, and migrating if you're absolutely forced to for some reason.  A few caveats to that advice:

 - I don't know what the price breakdown will be for the scale you are targeting

 - I don't know if there's some aspect of your architecture that is not supported by Heroku

-Jeff

  

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[Chris Le]

thanks for the reply jeff!

Not a lot of scale.  I'm trying to keep my focus on coding and strategy instead of messing about on a server.    Currently using an inherited server off Rackspace and the price comparison everywhere else (AWS, Heroku, Engine Yard) all come out cheaper.

I think performance is at least the same or better than Rackspace on all three fronts.  I'm testing out a staging copy of my app on AWS (m1.small) + RDS (5gb) right now.  Price per hour is better even at the pay-by-the hour rate.  Not seeing any improvement on the speed (non-scientific benchmark).

Any experience with performance?