Using Heroku and Montastic creatively
Heroku is a Ruby on Rails cloud deployment service that allows for free Rails instances, as long as they consume few resources. As I mentioned before, I use Heroku to format my Posterous emails vi haml markup language. The process is pretty complex already, as I explained in a previous post. Let's make it even a bit more complex. Heroku allows a free cron job every hour, but that's too long a wait for a pending message to be processed. Fortunately, there comes Montastic web monitoring service to the rescue. Montastic allows you to "ping" a URL, at least, every 10 minutes. Voilà, you now have a way to check email every minute also for free and, as a bonus, you have your service properly monitored all the time. Am I going to far with my posting mania?
