A billable hour is one hour of work in which concrete progress on your project was made. This does NOT include time spent researching an approach, learning a new library or API, or brainstorming a new design. All billable hours will be sent to the client on a weekly basis with a description of what was accomplished.
After meeting with us to define the scope of your project, we will send you an estimate for the approximate number of billable hours that it will take to complete. We can work with you to adjust the scope of the project to meet your budget if need be. Upon accepting the estimate, we ask for a retainer to be paid that is 50% of the project's estimated total. Once this retainer is paid, development begins.
Each week we will send you an invoice for the billable hours spent on your project. This cost will automatically be deducted from your retainer.
Once the retainer is depleted, we will reevaluate the estimated number of billable hours left. If the project's functionality and scope has evolved, we may ask you for another retainer. If the project is more than half way done, we will continue tracking billable hours on a weekly basis, but your final payment won't be due until the project's completion.
DNSimple is perfectly compatible with Heroku due to the use of ALIAS records. This enables your site to load on all the following:
Due to Heroku's ephemeral hard drive, this is not possible on most other services such as GoDaddy.
Heroku has a tiered system that allows for processing power to be purchased only once it is needed. As your web application generates more traffic, scaling up the server's resources maintains your applications speed and reliability. You can find more information about Heroku's pricing system here.