I blogged last week about setting up Heroku git push style deploys on a cheap VPS. This is really easy to do, but it is not the Heroku experience with scaling, fault recovery, plugins, etc.
Hopefully not too far off topic, but there are other hosting options to also look at:
Microsoft BizSpark: I was accepted a while back, and I am using it to try to get a business idea off the ground. Basically free hosting for a few years to get new business ideas started. I am using a Linux server. Microsoft Azure is pretty cool, and worth a look.
IBM BlueMix: I recently became interested in BlueMix because I am helping a customer use the IBM Watson system in their application. Anyway, if you are already familiar with the Cloud Foundry command line tools, then there is no learning curve for using BlueMix. You can host an app that uses 512MB RAM for free. As you increase RAM and other resources, then it starts to cost.
Hopefully not too far off topic, but there are other hosting options to also look at:
Microsoft BizSpark: I was accepted a while back, and I am using it to try to get a business idea off the ground. Basically free hosting for a few years to get new business ideas started. I am using a Linux server. Microsoft Azure is pretty cool, and worth a look.
IBM BlueMix: I recently became interested in BlueMix because I am helping a customer use the IBM Watson system in their application. Anyway, if you are already familiar with the Cloud Foundry command line tools, then there is no learning curve for using BlueMix. You can host an app that uses 512MB RAM for free. As you increase RAM and other resources, then it starts to cost.