Heroku Hosting Rails

Question

So I host with company X and have my domain on there. I deployed my app to heroku and pointed my domain at it. I can't wrap my head around if I am hosting my site on heroku now or if I am hosting it on company X's servers.

I would assume I'm hosting on herokus server because that is the most logical, but just keep having this brainfart.

Could someone please explain this to me?

Answer 1

Your application is on Heroku's server. All company X has done is perform the DNS magic necessary to map the friendly URL (www.yoursite.com) to your Heroku deployment.

Answer 2

Amazon

You should also be aware that Heroku doesn't actually "store" the app on its own servers - it uses Amazon's ec2 cloud to create instances of your app

So although you have your domain with company X, your app handled through heroku , it will actually be running in one of Amazon's data centers

Keep that in mind when you start to grow (you may find benefits of using Amazon directly)