Heroku - is it worth it?

Question

PHP

Should You Use Heroku?
I’m the only one in the technical team, I’m a backender by nature, but I’m not an admin, so I don’t deal well with VPS and servers myself.
But I really like Herok - almost the entire process of managing servers is automated.
There is no budget.
What will happen if the project gets to the highload (this is very possible with our idea)?
Does Heroku work well with it?
Or is it better to take a VPS and have a little sex with it?

Answer 1

The main advantage of PaaS and serverless architectures is precisely in easy and almost limitless scaling.

Answer 2

VPS of course. If you are engaged in backend, knowledge in administration will not be superfluous.

Answer 3

it can hold
but it's worth horses

Answer 4

While there is no $2k for a permanent admin and the price tag for Heroku is less than 2k - it costs
After, admin salary + 500-2k for hardware will bring more performance than any paas

Answer 5

The load must hold.
But at one fine moment, you may find that the cost of some downtime can be ten times less than the invoice for unexpected scaling for a sharply increased load due to your own mistake, for example. Or because of some kind of ddos.
Everything needs to be calculated, perhaps somehow limited. In general, think 100 times before making such a decision. There are many examples of huge bills.