--- title: Salesforce Heroku Reviews meta_title: 'Salesforce Heroku Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 148 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Salesforce Heroku works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 148 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Salesforce Heroku Reviews **Vendor:** Salesforce **Category:** [Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-platform-as-a-service-paas) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 148 ## About Salesforce Heroku Heroku is a cloud application platform that combines compute, data, and workflow with a high-productivity developer experience. Heroku Enterprise offers the same great developer experience along with enterprise-grade control, collaboration, and compliance. The platform gives enterprise teams the quickest path to delivering trusted customer experiences at scale. -Enhanced privacy in a network-isolated runtime environment -Seamless scalability to meet enterprise demand -Simplified compliance with PCI, HIPPA, SOC, and other standards -Automated, CI/CD workflows for optimal team collaboration -Integration with Salesforce data to build personalized experiences -Ecosystem of 150+ third-party add-on services to accelerate development -Unified dashboard to manage apps, add-ons, billing, permissions, and more. For more information, visit: https://www.heroku.com/enterprise ## Salesforce Heroku Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Salesforce Heroku, enjoying its straightforward setup and management capabilities. (2 reviews) - Users value the **automation capabilities** of Heroku, streamlining tasks like file processing and real-time synchronization. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **robust customer support** of Salesforce Heroku, enhancing their development experience significantly. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **deployment ease** of Salesforce Heroku, making it simple to start and scale projects effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility** of Salesforce Heroku, as it supports multiple programming languages for diverse development teams. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **reliability** of Salesforce Heroku, finding it a robust solution for their implementations. (1 reviews) - Scalability (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **high security** of Salesforce Heroku, fostering trust and confidence in their development processes. (1 reviews) - Users value the **rapid application development tools** of Salesforce Heroku, enhancing productivity and efficiency in projects. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users face **poor customer support** , particularly regarding billing issues and account deletions that lack clear communication and recovery options. (2 reviews) - Users face **authentication issues** with Salesforce Heroku due to login problems triggered by IP changes. (1 reviews) - Users report **difficult debugging** experiences with Salesforce Heroku, finding it challenging to resolve issues effectively. (1 reviews) - Users express concern over **downtime issues** due to severe account deletion policies and lack of recovery options. (1 reviews) - Users express frustration with **email notification issues** , risking unexpected account deletions and lack of recovery options. (1 reviews) - Users find Salesforce Heroku **expensive** , with inadequate support that hinders effective debugging and overall satisfaction. (1 reviews) - Users find a **lack of learning resources** in Salesforce Heroku, making it challenging to enhance their knowledge and skills. (1 reviews) - Users note that **resource limitations** in Heroku make managing large applications challenging, requiring extra strategies and architecture. (1 reviews) ## Salesforce Heroku Reviews ### 1. Heroku for PaaS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Timothy S. | Principal Developer Advocate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Heroku is insanely easy to use, has a ton of buildpacks which you can fork and make your own. it supports python, ruby, java and all the languages you want to develop. You write a normal local web app, add one file and use a CLI to push. Everything is simple and fast and nothing weird. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** It would be nice to have a GUI, more free options, free data services and open source container. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Try the free one, deploy one small application of the language and framework you are using, say Ruby on Rails with Postgresql. Test it and have your developers use the CLI, If it meets your needs jump in and buy some month to month. Try some data services. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Develop and deploy applications quickly without internal red tape or setup issues. This was realized, very fast and easy to deploy applications in a production mode. Also Heroku works very well for Facebook applications. ### 2. Excelente service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arturo J. | Director de Tecnología, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Easy to setup and use. It works as a charm to add new features or plugins. Well documented and easy to understand. Makes development easy since it gives you all the needed resources to do so. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** It is still difficult for me to understand what a dyno is. It is not well documented and I have not seen any good explanation on it. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Don't be afraid of changing from a traditional grid-service to a cloud computing service. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using it to deploy all my business products, applications and websites. Since it is very easy to use and deploy it has reduce the amount of tools needed. All the programming languages are great and it is great for scalability. ### 3. Using Heroku services I increased the productivity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Călin S. | Front end web developer, Outsourcing/Offshoring, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** I like that provisioning of any web application or service is very easy. You souldn't learn how to configure the servers or how to customize them to give you the best performance. On Heroku Enterprise you can, also, increase the scalability of any application and the support team is very very experienced and helps you with any thing regarding network issues, downtimes, servers configuration, so on. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** I and my team didn't find any issues or things that we dislike until now. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** If you search for a really customized PaaS, go for Heroku. It's the right choice. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** My team doesn't need to configure the servers for our application. Continuous integration, testing servers, mail server, GIT server, Sonar server installation is very complicated for a huge application environment. With Heroku Enterprise, we just configure elelments and we are up to go if we want to extend features. ### 4. Simple and easy to use but watch for costs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave B. | Manager, Software Development Engineering, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Super easy way to get an environment up and running for most startups using the web on a variety of hosts such as Node or Rails. Maintenance and simple integration with GitHub are also pretty good. Also has a rich supply of add-ons to make life easy, such as MQ, DB's etc. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** It's so easy to use you need to be disciplined at making sure you clean up after yourself to avoid spiraling costs. For example, if you create a follower DB to us as a backup, make sure you delete it after use! Does not really give you any detailed metrics on server performance, some basic stuff is there, but you have to pay for something like New Relic to get more detail. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** In a startup environment, agility rules, and Heroku offers just that. ### 5. Deploy your app quickly, easily and with options that work for you. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viresh H. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** The leader in the emerging platform-as-a-service industry is Heroku, an extensible and well-connected cloud hosting platform that makes deploying and managing applications in several popular languages almost effortless. It has made great strides since its inception as a Ruby-only application hosting platform to include support for Python, Node.js, Java and PHP multiple languages. Heroku has a freemium model, and invariably, Ruby enthusiasts who try out Heroku, invariably get hooked on to it and start using more and more resources and move to the premium offering. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** No other services can be run on dynos. Dynos are strictly for application processes. Databases, background workers, and other services usually cost extra through Heroku’s add-ons or third party services. No way to install system software. Heroku does provide some commonly-used packages such as Imagemagick, but if you need anything else, you’ll have to resort to hacks. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** You can’t beat free, and this is actually quite a good offering. One dyno is plenty to run many kinds of apps. Brochure sites, simple APIs, and blogs are a few of the many possible uses for this free dyno. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modern Platform-as-a-Service for Enterprise Application Development. Corporate app dev teams can enjoy all of the core Heroku benefits — including smart containers, instant scalability, powerful developer tools and workflow, pre-integrated add-ons, and data services — with added collaboration functionality, additional control features, and enterprise grade support. Now enterprises can build highly engaging, disruptive apps as easily as startups. ### 6. Heroku is developer-friendly and scale-friendly, making it the best option for startups. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** The Heroku command line tool chain makes it so easy as a developer to deploy nearly anything within a matter of seconds, it's second-nature to use Heroku by default when deploying any project, be it of corporate scale or side project. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** The pricing, as soon as you're more than the default first dyno, gets pretty hefty pretty fast. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** If you're a developer who writes open source software, do the world a favor and add the Heroku Button to your project. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scale and development speed; the main benefit is that neither do I need to learn any sysadmin personally nor will I have to find a sysadmin in a startup context. ### 7. Straightforward PaaS for most webapp stacks. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** It's extremely simple to deploy apps; the auto-detection for app type (e.g. Django, MEAN...) works pretty well, and the setup for Procfiles is easy enough to follow with the official docs. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** In some edge cases, Heroku can be tricky to set up. Most of the examples I've encountered are in esoteric Python packages (where installation can be tricky) or if you need to host a bunch of static content on AWS (since you can't really use Heroku as a vanilla filesystem -- not to imply that you should be able to, since that isn't the intended use). **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've mostly used Heroku as a quick way to host web apps, both for hobbies and for smaller web design contracting projects. The benefit is usually in the quick deployment, especially after initial setup. Git push to deploy is fantastic. ### 8. Awesome platform for self hosting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James C. | Founder, Owner, Tea-boy, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Firstly, and this cannot be overlooked, it's free to get started with Heroku and you probably won't have to pay them for a long long time (and by then you're probably making enough money anyway). Secondly, their documentation is awesome and it's really easy to get started. I wasn't a linux pro by any stretch of the imagination when I started with Heroku but if you can use Git then you can deploy to Heroku. Thirdly, they have a bunch of plugins and third party services to add support for any weird or wonderful data storage mechanisms you want to use, message queue services etc. so you basically don't have to touch infrastructure at all (something you generally would have to fiddle with if you were using AWS or Digital Ocean or the like). **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Herokus is essentially Linux only... not a huge problem for many people (and certainly not for Heroku users). **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Definitely give it a whirl - it's free to try and probably does everything you need and more. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed a place to host my public websites. Heroku is a good pick for personal/hobby projects or prototypes as well though. ### 9. Pretty satisfied **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kunal K. | Student, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Its extensibility, plugins and command-line integration. One can set up complete stack in minutes focus on the application rather than maintaining the stack. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Extra services that are required along with the primary platform come at a higher cost, if we choose to work entirely on the Heroku platform. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Heroku platform is fast upgrading, worth giving a try! **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating large scale web platforms for social activities. It provides with all types of pricing to suit your needs and gives you the ability to test some free of cost. ### 10. Web app deployment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joel Y. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Ease of use, you just need to follow the guideline and upload your code. No need for setting up server or database infrastructure. All you need is install the PostgreSQL plugins from Heroku then you are Good to go **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** more expensive than setting up your own infrastructure such as on AWS **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Ease of use **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating a web app, ease of creating a web app and free of charge for basic version ### 11. My experience with Heroku **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** you can get a prototype up and running easily with minimum configurations and best of all for free **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** it's extremely expensive to host an actual (beyond prototype) app on heroku... it's one of the most expensive hosting services... plus some (few) times you cannot find the correct (free) plugin to get your prototype fully working **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** it solves the DEVOPS issues for small business... but if it didn't work at first you might end up in rabbit hole trying to figure out why is the build keep breaking ( when you need some native linux extensions for example like imagemagic) ### 12. Heroku. App Hosting Powerhouse. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Curtis R. | Solutions Architect, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Quite possibly the greatest aspect of using Heroku is the shear simplicity of working with the system. Whether you're building a Ruby, Node or PHP app, its as simple as running a command from your source directory. Heroku just gets out of your way and lets you work your own magic. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** One of the only things I dislike about Heroku is the pricing model compared to some of the other PaaS solutions that are competitors. Based on the size of your app though, this may not be an issue as the cost comes with using, arguably, the leader in the space. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Definitely start with the free tier and see how the deployment mechanisms and processes fit within your existing setup. It shouldn't be an issue, but its definitely a change for some people. Additionally, Heroku Database is based on Postgres; its not the only platform available, but others require add-on functionality. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** The largest problem I solve using Heroku is reducing the time-frame for putting out POC's. It's DEAD simple to get something live and in front of users with very minimal effort and management on your part. Being able to do this in pretty much every popular language is a really huge benefit as you don't have to jump from solution to solution. ### 13. Real Cool Application!!! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ronnie T. | Salesforce Administrator III, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** How easy the application is for users to use and the flexibility and stability it provides a organization. You can host Heroku in the cloud and don't have to worry about having the overhead of any equipment on sight. This is a pretty cool application to have and use. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** There isn't much that I dislike, if I had to say it would be pricing depending on what you need. Depending how much you need to scale or how fast your business grows it could get pretty expensive pretty fast. So depending on financial resources would determine if scaling is feasible. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** N/A **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Customer mobile application and tracking of user data. A mobile app that allows our customers to login and track their progress for the Immunotheraphy they are on. Allow the user to stay compliance. ### 14. Amazingly simple deployments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Not having to do dev ops myself, or hire a dedicated dev ops team. While Heroku is more expensive than other deployment options, it's still cheaper than hiring a good dev ops team. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** I would love better "out of the box" support for more technologies, like Haskell, Elixir, etc. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Use it! Heroku is a great piece of software **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying code ### 15. Good quality for small development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan R. | Software Engineer, web platforms, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Fast integration with NodeJS, mongoDB, and other new technologies and also with git. Great documentation. Any app in heroku runs smooth and fast. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Bad error log, I had some troubles building my app, and the errors those heroku give me to understand what is happening were REALLY bad, I spend a lot of time researching about issues, and many time there were package problem, or errors in the package.json. Debugging in heroku is almost imposible. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Improve debugging, the integration system works really good, but if any problem appears it's almost imposible to find a solution quickly, that is the main problem with heroku server that I had. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use heroku to build mobile app backends, as API services. And also same pages or prototyping. ### 16. Heroku is simple and powerful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Super easy to push a site up to heroku and have it live immediately. It has it's own set of tools that you can download that make pushing super easy. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** There is a lag when you first open a site if you don't pay for more expensive membership. So if you are demoing something to someone you want to impress make sure you refresh the page before you show them. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Use it. Really great for demoing and they have great documentation as well. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting a coded website. Great to have somewhere to demo things. ### 17. Amazon EC2 with Heroku Integration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Installation with a Mac is flawless, and accessing the server is easy. The documentation available online is also phenomenal. You can always find something that will lead you in the right direction if you are unsure about something. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** I wish Heroku was not only a read-only file system. This would allow users to deploy scripts. For example, I am building a mobile application that requires me to POST to a server with a list of variables and then run a script that calls an external API with these variables. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Heroku will definitely help your start-up if you want to get up and running quickly. In terms of scalability, you will not have to worry about much since the service can handle an immense amount of data. Heroku eliminates the need to have house your own servers on your company's premises, and its cost is a mere fraction of what it would take to set this level of scalability up yourself. In addition, if you want to use Heroku for testing your product with remote servers, you can very easily! **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration with Amazon EC2 has solved the read-only problem, and it has allowed my mobile application to send and receive data to and from the database. ### 18. Great Flexible, Scalable platform for rapid development & deployment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John C. P. | Founder, CEO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** support for existing development languages, ease of deployment, plug & play assembly of apps using standard components. The Patterns they released were great. The new Elements are awesome. Excited to see where this grows! **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** What's not to like? Love it. I wish the Heroku Connect was cheaper - but that will come in time. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Try it for free - you won't regret it. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's my swiss-army nice to solve lots of "edge of the system" use cases - without having to use a bunch of 3rd party tools that each have their own issues / licensing, etc. Able to rapidly prototype a mobile proof of concept for a prospective customer - then quickly iterate it into production and scale it up. ### 19. Quickest and Easiest PASS out there **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Everything is well documented and easy to use. You can get a app running in just a few minutes. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** The costs are high and you don't get complete control about how your web dynos are allocated. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Use it to launch your apps quickly. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web start ups can use Heroku to get rid of a lot of headaches when launching their first application. ### 20. From localhost:8000 to production in the blink of an eye **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tapan P. | Principal Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Heroku enforces the best practices listed in the 12 factor app. It makes it really easy to build a completely decoupled app. I like how it encourages using addons for different services. It might lead to a higher cost in the longer run but you can always replace an addon with your own service. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Sometimes debugging is hard because I can't ssh into the running dyno. Also, I noticed that sometimes the dyno would just become very sluggish for a few seconds. Turns out it's because another app is starving our app of CPU time. This went away after switching to performance dynos, but those are very expensive. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** It's really good to prototype new software, to the point I'll never consider anything else for prototyping. Scaling heroku is hard and expensive though. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in the mobile payments space. As a startup, we had a very small tech team and heroku allowed us to focus on development and features rather than devops. ### 21. Great product but the pricing structure should be more progressive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dana J. W. | Technical Product Manager, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** All rails developers know the virtues of Heroku and will tell you it's one of the great things about building in RoR. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** I think Heroku's tiered pricing structure should be more favorable to smaller datasets. The bd im currently working with has about 200k rows and this puts me in the third pricing bracket. And this app has no funding so this will come out of pocket. I think people at my level should still be first or second tier and then up the rates on customers who are truely big data. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** It takes a lot of the fragmentation out of hosting and is basically the one stop shop for launching RoR apps. ### 22. Heroku is the best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill T. | Senior Web Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** How easy it is to deploy and quick you can get a web app up and running. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** It is very expensive and it can difficult to troubleshoot at times. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Consider how long it would you take you to setup an Amazon EC2 instance just so you could start deploying and it's clear you should use Heroku as at least a starting point. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problem is how do you quickly and easily deploy a web app. ### 23. Heroku and Delivery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** The thing I like best about Heroku is that it's simple, to the point. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Not very much. The only thing I was a little lost on was restarting processes but once I understood their philosophy a bit better it was smooth sailing from there. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developer tools and solutions to increase user productivity. ### 24. Heroku **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** I love how simple it is to use. Takes care of sysadmin tasks for us. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** More expensive to scale than AWS, but we're fine with that. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bootstraping a startup, so we'd rather not deal with sysadmin stuff. ### 25. Awesome **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Ease of deployment and scaling and no headache of devops **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Very Expensive not suited for sme's or startups **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rest API deployments and mobile Backends ### 26. Good platform to Hosting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayuresh G. | Product Development Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** is immensely powerful, with a wide, thorough feature set and mind-boggling flexibility and third-party integration. With their highly customizable dyno feature, and the ability to scale your application at the click of a button, Heroku is the undisputed leader in the emerging PaaS cloud hosting industry. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** For first time it get difficult to understand but as get hands on its easy to use ... **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly hosting problem get solved by using heroku ### 27. Great for Rails... **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John G. M. | Creative Director, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** I like the fact that Heroku work great for Rails. I like the Heroku interface and the simplicity of the platform. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** The cost. Lower the prices or Digital Ocean will eat your cheese. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Use a Mac. Some of the Rails plugins (S3) don't work for Heroku on a Windows PC. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do rapid web developemt and elLearning development. HTML5 and content development services. ### 28. Just and awesome cloud, easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guy S. | VP R&D, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** setup time, ease of use, no maintenance, easy backup management **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** I can't really think of anything. I guess that if I started scaling this service will start being a bit expansive **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Try it out with some POC app you'r building. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rails website with postgres. using the pg backups. the best benefits are simply deploying fast and simple no annoying setup time. start with a free package and go on from there. ### 29. Expensive, but a potential time saver **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** The ease of deployment, and speed to get started. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** It is an opaque system: it can be a struggle to figure out what exactly is happening in any part of the system when things go wrong. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** The speed at which we've been able to deploy to production has been a competitive advantage, and been a tremendous boon to new developers. ### 30. Awesome PaaS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin Nahuel R. | Co-Founder / Tech & Experiences Director, Marketing and Advertising, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** I love how Heroku does all the deployments and how he is able to breake all the limits **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Sometimes the way it fails is really random. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Better tools off the monitor or console **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prototype fast. ### 31. A solid cloud offering **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** I like the combination of web and command line capabilities, both of which are easy to use. I also appreciate the free offering. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** There's not much to dislike, although I've heard that the pricing is a little high relative to some competitors. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've hosted a couple of personal projects on Heroku. One provides a generic metrics-dashboard capability and other provides some paper-scanning business automation for a small city. ### 32. Helped us to become more stable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** We switched from AWS to Heroku to help keep our Salesforce Integration up-to-date and running 24/7 **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** I currently do not dislike anything about their services. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped our business become more stable. ### 33. Quick, convenient for deploying projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Desmond P. | Ui Engineer, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Very easy to use. Quick to deploy and has hooks into any sort of stack technology that I want to incorporate. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** There is a slight delay to the user to wake up the server if it has been inactive for quite some time. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** greast **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed a place to host a node.js application and this was great for that. ### 34. Easy to use with good documentation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Documentation for most issues is easy to find and reliable **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** I truly like the product. I have only had good experiences so far. **What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy deploy to multiple sites ### 35. Software Developer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darmawan S. | Software Developer, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2014 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Platform is solid and good for the beginner to start playing out **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Pricing is not what I expected. It should be categorized by level of usage ### 36. Heroku for startups **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ruban K. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2013 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** I wanted to try Heroku for a long time and I finally got a chance when I built a Facebook application. The best thing I like about Heroku is that it's Free to start. Though I don't understand about their dyno-hour concept yet (I haven't started using any database offerings), I love the easiness to host your domain. I , as a startup hosted my domain on Heroku. It was free and easy to use. I like the git integration and activity feed. Their articles look good too. Try creating a facebook app on Facebook to know what I mean. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Allowing the users to map Heroku apps to user's naked domain instead of a sub domain would be nice. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Heroku doesn't support static files directly. You need to include it in a php or any language files. My site aorborc.com is running fully on Heroku. I implemented it by writing a php file with include_once command. It works nicely so far. Give it a try.. ### 37. Super easy to use and deploy. Great way to get started with a web app. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex G. | Co-Founder, Internet **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2013 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Incredibly simple to deploy and get started. Easy to roll back to previous versions. Quickly scales up and down dynos. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** PostgreSQL was at times less than ideal. Implementing applications to monitor my applications was a bit tricky. Dynos sleep if they aren't active **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Use this to get started. I had a heavy process that would occur once per day, so I would spin dynos up and down for a short period of time each day and it saved a ton of money. ### 38. Deployment is a piece of cake **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2013 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** The command line tools to deploy onto heroku make it super simple to deploy. Also the ability to ssh into your server makes it super easy to manage your app **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** I had some trouble deploying a Rails 4 app recently. The fix was to include a gem into my rails app. I had to look on Google to figure this out and was not super clear on the documentation at the time I had this issue. ### 39. Powers my website's staging environment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2013 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Recently moved my website's staging environment to Heroku. Combined with GitHub, I'm able to push changes from my localhost to Heroku's staging environment to test site changes before they go live. Can easily turn Dynos on/off to control monthly cost. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Not much. Took me less than a day to get used to Heroku and haven't looked back. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Great product. Highly recommend. ### 40. Great start **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2013 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Ability to run Java on salesforce objects. I can't wait to explore Heroku further and learn what else it can do. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** I'd love for it to actually run on SFDC instead of doing external callouts. ### 41. Great tool for a start-up **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2012 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Easy to get going. Flexible and helps us grow the business vs. being an impediment. Our dev team loves it. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** At this poing nothing. Since i am a business sponsor I don't get into the details. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Consider this as one of your top choices. ### 42. Excellent, Simple, Hosting System **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erich R. | Co-founder & CSO, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2012 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** The innovation in the hosting industry has been one of the welcomed changes to the startup industry in the Bay Area. Gone are the days where you would have to drive down to the data center to manually restart your server in the middle of the night. Heroku is an extension of the movement to create simpler, easier to deploy solutions. It's so easy to use and deploys directly from your Git repo which is amazing. Setting up your hosting solution is easier than Amazon's Cloud solutions (although in the long term you have less control, and potentially less opportunity to optimize perform in certain infrastructure areas), and is very fast, generally very reliable, and there are a number of add-ons that make it easy to implement things like NoSQL databases or other web services (search, pdf generation, caching). **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Reliability has sometimes been an issue. There were a few critical times where we were unable to deploy code to a production site when we need to release a fairly important bug fix. Deploying to the production platform (as of a year ago) can cause a temporary outrage, which is manageable, but you simply have to plan to deploy at alternate times. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** This is a very excellent platform for deploying small production web applications, Facebook apps, etc. Very good support for many popular languages. If you plan to create a app with a large user base, you will probably be better served by using a custom EC2 solution. ### 43. Great to host your Ruby or Java, very command-line centric **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marco C. | Vice President of Product Management and Technical Services, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2012 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** It's easy to get your app up and deployed complete with database, apps, etc., especially if you're using Ruby on Rails. Documentation is good and up to date. Pricing is fantastic. It's cheap. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** OUTAGES! EC2 goes down, it takes Heroku with it. However the outages have gone much further than that. We use a shared Postgres database, and that keeps going down, knocking us over. Then, there are sometimes problems with restart, so we have a cascade problem -- we get a DB outage, we try to restart our site, and restart doesn't work. We've been down for as many as 9 hours at a shot, enough that I'm starting to think about moving to some other provider like EngineYard. It's very command-line centric. There aren't a lot of UI tools to help out new users, so there's a lot of doc-reading to do. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** If you like Ruby on Rails, you'll like Heroku. It's a similar mindset. ### 44. Nice platform for hosting rails apps, has limitations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jared T. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2012 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** How easy it is to deploy an application, the ease of adding features, has a lot of addons that make extending your app very easily, you can get started for free and try it out before you commit. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** There are limitations such as no native file upload (need to use amazon s3, must use postgres as localhost db). **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Its easy to scale, it can host many different programming languages and frameworks. I might consider it in the future, but it was not quite right for the requirements I had for my web app. ### 45. Great for starting up and learning about other programming languages. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan B. | Software Engineer III, Information Technology and Services **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2012 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Heroku is a great for having a place to start and trying out new things and ideas that you are looking to being to market. Then, once you know what you're doing, it's an even better for bringing things to market. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** As great as Heroku is, there could be more documentation and tutorials on integrating the different programming languages into one **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Have an idea, a plan and fun ### 46. Great Development Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2012 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Take a concept live in minutes. Viable for many, many different sizes of project. Ties right into my git workflow with very low hurdles. They provide great docs, and are so widely used that it is easy to find answers to questions through Google. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Their dependence on Amazon brought them down a few times this year. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Just try it, it's free and simple to get started. You might also consider migrating a more mature project onto their platform, depending on the circumstances. ### 47. Great hosting platform to get you up and running **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2012 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** I love the heroku tools for your terminal and how easy it is to integrate with your GIT workflow. If you're not afraid of the terminal, heroku is amazing simple and fast. Very reliable (or at least as reliable as the S3 architecture it's built on. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** If amazon goes down, we all go down. **Recommendations to others considering Salesforce Heroku:** Go for it. It's really easy to get started and you can try it out free. Even once you start paying, they charge you for usage, so until it's fully functional and you're getting traffic, it's extremely inexpensive to use. (Dollars per month) ### 48. Heroku Cloud is an interesting application platform. **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2012 **What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?** Most Cloud offerings today are not that difficult to figure out. This one took a little while to get a handle of, but once you have it in place all systems are go. **What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?** Most Cloud offerings today are not that difficult to figure out. 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