For the past few years, I’ve used Slicehost for all my production hosting needs. I have been very happy with them. Recently I had a need for a new staging server. It takes a good amount of time to set up a site from scratch on Slicehost, which is fine for production servers, but I needed a site up quickly.

I love Heroku, I really do. They have eliminated nearly all of the hassle surrounding deployment and server management in the Ruby/Rails world. Here’s the rub…