I tried Tutum a couple months ago, the onboarding experience was awesome, the free image builder was super fast, metrics of my processes everywhere I loved it... the struggle started until I deployed a real app with little workload: After a couple of hours Metrics didn't worked at all, process got stalled and the whole UI became useless because I had zero visibility of what was going on.
I switched to Heroku only to realize that I had the same problem there too, obviously it was an issue in my app but at least Heroku have me an specific R14 error code and description of what was happening and finally knew what I was dealing with. For the next 48h that I was debugging the memory leak I had my dynos switched to 1X to get even more resource metrics, once the issue was solved I switched my dynos back to hobby.
I'm considering going back to Tutum now that I have deferpanic installed and configured in my app and my Heroku bills are around 100 USD monthly(20USD SSL endpoint x 3 + 7USD hobby dynos x 3 + 22.50USD Compose RethinkDB), but I was shocked to realize how much value a mature PaaS can deliver for clients even for a hobby-ish app like mine.
I switched to Heroku only to realize that I had the same problem there too, obviously it was an issue in my app but at least Heroku have me an specific R14 error code and description of what was happening and finally knew what I was dealing with. For the next 48h that I was debugging the memory leak I had my dynos switched to 1X to get even more resource metrics, once the issue was solved I switched my dynos back to hobby.
I'm considering going back to Tutum now that I have deferpanic installed and configured in my app and my Heroku bills are around 100 USD monthly(20USD SSL endpoint x 3 + 7USD hobby dynos x 3 + 22.50USD Compose RethinkDB), but I was shocked to realize how much value a mature PaaS can deliver for clients even for a hobby-ish app like mine.