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Read 4 Engine Yard Cloud reviews
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Engineyard or Heroku?
Joe Hernandez
Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle
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  • "Its price is very good."
  • "The price of Heroku could be less expensive."
  • "There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."
  • "I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."
  • "The tool is free."

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    Heroku vs Engine Yard
    #1 “Ease of Use” Heroku blows Engine Yard away. you install the gem and can deploy your application in minutes. There are also commands you can run on your local machine to get information about your application Engine Yard is moving forward, but it is still pretty technical. It’s really easy if you have a public github repo, but anything other than that starts to get “more complicated” quickly. #2 “Architecture” Engine Yard gives you a “real” virtual machine. This means you’ve actually got a single CPU virutal host that you ssh into and effectively do whatever you want. Heroku gives you a sandbox with walls around it, and I think it’s a shared environment. It’s actually kinda difficult to figure out exactly what they’re running as you cannot log onto the machine direction. #3 “Startup Price” Heroku gives you a free (as in beer) environment. Engine Yard let’s you run a trial environment for free for a period of time, but you eventually have to pay for it… even if nobody ever visits your site. #4 “Flexibility” Heroku lets you do anything you want as long as they’ve preconfigured it to enable you to be able to do it. Engine Yard gives you ssh capability to the machine, which means you can do anytChing you want even if they didn’t think it would be a good idea. Overall, I’d say Heroku is like taking the bus: if enough people want to go the same place at the same time, it’s more economical. Engine Yard is like buying a car: it’s going to be a bit more expensive and you’re… Read more →
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    Ranking
    23rd
    out of 37 in PaaS Clouds
    Views
    243
    Comparisons
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    13th
    out of 37 in PaaS Clouds
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    4,273
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    4
    Average Words per Review
    307
    Rating
    8.0
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    Overview

    Engine Yard Cloud is a leading cloud application platform, a convenient and easy-to-use portal where web application developers can build, test, and execute their applications.

    Established in 2007, Heroku is a cloud application platform providing a streamlined, efficient place for web app developers to create and deploy their applications. Heroku is designed to maximize developer productivity. With the entire web application development process available on the Herokucloud, creating and rolling out web apps has been made more efficient, convenient, and cost-effective than ever before.

    Sample Customers
    MTV, Estee Lauder, Audi, Appboy, Badgeville, Vitrue, RepairPal, and TST Media.
    Facebook, UrbanDictionary, Code for America, Mailchimp, Rapportive, GitHub, TED, and Lyft.
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    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company43%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Marketing Services Firm14%
    Sports Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company14%
    Educational Organization13%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business81%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Engine Yard Cloud is ranked 23rd in PaaS Clouds while Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 27 reviews. Engine Yard Cloud is rated 0.0, while Heroku is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Engine Yard Cloud writes "Engineyard or Heroku?". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Heroku writes "Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle ". Engine Yard Cloud is most compared with AT&T Platform as a Service, whereas Heroku is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Google App Engine, OpenShift and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

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