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We performed a comparison between AppFog [EOL] and Heroku based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle
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  • "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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    AppFog vs Heroku
    Recently I have been playing PaaS for test thing out, and with recent General Available of AppFog, PaaS providers’ competition become more interesting. In this post, I will compare AppFog with a mature PaaS provider, Heroku. So, there are many people think, what are their primary features that make you stick to particular PaaS provider? Lets do the comparison using case study. Memory Management Do you ever come across a senario where your app is consume 80MB most of the time, or well, 512MB is not enough for you when you deploy a huge Java Web Application (Yeah, Java)? With AppFog, this is not an issue for you, since they allow developer to configure how much memory they want to allocate to their app. Wow, awesome right? No more wasting your money to invest on ten dynos on heroku, where a lot of memory is not used. However, this can be a issue for you, if you choose to deploy your app to Heroku, you will need to buy a dyno with 512MB of RAM where either sometime is too larger, or too small. If your application consume 100MB RAM, and you deploy ten dynos, well, you wasted (512 - 100) * 10 = 4120MB of RAM! Pricing Model I have a web application on production, suddenly my application is getting huge traffic after a tweet by a famous person. I want quickly scale my application to handle such traffic. According to AppFog pricing model, it is by subscription based model by select a plan. However, assume their able to upgrade plan within minutes, then it is fine (See Comment). But… Read more →
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    Overview

    AppFog, CenturyLink's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) based on Cloud Foundry, enables developers to focus on writing great cloud-based applications without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. The result is increased agility and productivity, more efficient use of resources and low operational overhead.

    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.

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    Computer Software Company43%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Marketing Services Firm14%
    Sports Company14%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Educational Organization13%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Small Business81%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    AppFog [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in PaaS Clouds while Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 27 reviews. AppFog [EOL] is rated 0.0, while Heroku is rated 8.4. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Heroku writes "Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle ". AppFog [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Heroku is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Google App Engine, OpenShift and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

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