Heroku

Heroku

💙Heroku is a cloud platform as a service supporting several programming languages that is used as a web application deployment model.


1.How to use Heroku

1. Download the Heroku Toolbelt.
2. Login: heroku login.
3. Add your public key: heroku keys:add.
4. Pull down your current application heroku git:clone -a app-name.
5. Make your improvements.
6. Git add and commit your changes.
7. Push back to heroku: git push heroku master.

 2.Advantages in Heroku

• Heroku is easy to get started.
• Heroku is the cheapest option for a low traffic site
• we don't have to add our credit card for payment at early stage.
• They offer no of Dyno for upgrade and downgrade app instance
• Database integration is pretty simple with PostgreSQL

 3.Disadvantages in Heroku

• we have to pay very high, once we decide to handle more traffic.
• we have to manually scale our application on hight traffic.
• we can't login to your server via SSH(Secure Remote Login & File Transfer)

4.What is SSH protocol?

The protocol is used in corporate networks for: 

• providing secure access for users and automated processes
• interactive and automated file transfers
• issuing remote commands
• managing network infrastructure and other mission-critical system components.