Heroku
Overview
Heroku is a Platform as a Service that makes deploying and hosting Spree applications super easy.
You should just follow Heroku Rails 6 guide.
We recommend you start and stick to Heroku if you do not have DevOps-skilled team members. Spree Starter is pre-configured to work with Heroku out of the box.
Dynos
Heroku Dynos are lightweight, isolated environments that provide compute and run yuor application.
There’s 2 type of dynos:
- Web - for running the web interface of yuour Store (Storefront, API, Admin Panel)
- Worker - for running background jobs via Active Job such as email send out, report generation, etc
Recommended sizing
| Dynos | Staging environment | Production environment |
|---|---|---|
| web | 1 x Standard-2x | 1 x Standard-2x (small traffic) or 1 x Performance-M (medium traffic) |
| worker | 1 x Standard-1x | 1 x Standard-1x |
Add-Ons
Heroku Add-Ons are tools and services for developing, extending, and operating your app.
Recommended Add-Ons and plans
| Plan | Staging environment | Production environment |
|---|---|---|
| Bucketeer | Hobbyist | Micro |
| Edge | Hobby | Micro |
| Heroku Postgres | Hobby Basic | Standard-0 |
| Heroku Scheduler | N/A | N/A |
| Memcached Cloud | Free | 100 MB |
| Papertrail | Choklad | Fixa |
| Redis Cloud | Free | 100 MB |
| Scout APM | Free | Free (small traffic) or Eldora (medium traffic) |
| Sendgrid | Free | Bronze |
| Sentry | Free | Small |