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bjelkeman-again
It would be very interesting to see how something like this compares to running Wordpress at http://wpengine.com
flog
Well for one there's no MySQL hosting at Heroku. So unless you've got a server somewhere else this is a non-starter.
tekacs
Heroku has addons (which are pretty fundamental to the system - even 'custom domains' is an addon, albeit first-party) which provide MySQL - it's even stated in the article...
flog
For $70 a month, and it's not available to most people. Do your own fact checking.
nixarn
wpengine sounds really expensive. $49/month for just 50k pageviews. My $39/month Linode setup handles a million page views with no sweat.
wyck
That is not a very good comparison, linode as you know does not provide the same feature set nor does it have WordPress devs on hand to help.
lootabooga
No, but you can pay someone $100 to install it for you and more or less forget it afterwards (since even WP version updates are mostly automatic from the admin UI --and even themes can be installed that way now).

Or, even better, use a Linode image with WP already installed, boot it and you're in business.

JoeP
Even so, $49 a month is a LOT of money for not that much.
consultutah
This is killer for small wordpress sites. You essentially get free custom domain hosting until it hits a traffic level where it needs something more significant, then you can re-evaluate your options.
orta
This is cool, I'd wonder how many wordpress plugins are prepared to work with a read-only filesystem.
kowsik
the cedar stack has a writeable file system, though no persistence across dyno recycles/restarts.
jackseviltwin
On the Cedar stack, the slug is still read-only, but the ephemeral filesystem is writable. The slug is what gets deployed on each new dyno spawned. The ephemeral filesystem is the individual file system on each dyno. So a plugin like WP Super Cache would be able to write to the file system, but that cache would only exist for the individual dyno that wrote it.
sheff
As Heroku has a Postgres backend, I imagine you could also install PG4WP (http://www.hawkix.net/tag/pg4wp/) which is a plugin to get Wordpress working with Postgres DBs, and just deploy directly using Heroku alone.

You may run into problems with any other plugins which use MySQL specific SQL syntax though.

rograndom
Plugins and themes cannot currently be installed through /wp-admin due to the PHP not having a zlib extension. Installation via git works fine though.
ashleyw
With Heroku you can only write to /tmp from your app.
mnml_
This is great but, whats the best way to store attachments ?
lootabooga
You could use a WP plugin that stores them on Amazon S3. It's not free, but it's like < $1 month for normal blog needs.
picardo
The only plugin available explicitly states (on the Settings page, after you install and avtiavate it) that it doesn't upload directly to S3. It has to upload to your server first.

edit: actually, I think the upload to S3 button is different from upload media button. That's why I didn't see it.

aymeric
You guys seem to ignore the fact the Mysql addon costs $70/month on Heroku.