title: Heroku vs DotCloud vs Duostack vs other cloud/PaaS providers (Rails and non-Rails)?
body: <p>We have a very simple function (We look something up from a third party database and return an answer. It's literally five lines of code.) We would like to offload this task from our main server because we expect a high volume of traffic for this one function and would like to optimize it.</p>
  
  <p>We are thinking about testing the promise of many cloud/PaaS providers, where they handle scaling and performance responsibilities.</p>
  
  <p>We're most interested in Rails environments, but are curious to hear experiences from others about any company in the space.</p>
  
  <p>Here are the PaaS companies we found that supports Rails:</p>
  
  <p>1) Heroku
  2) DotCloud
  3) Duostack</p>
  
  <p>Questions:</p>
  
  <p>1) Do you know of other Rails-specific companies? Also feel free to list non-Rails companies since we're interested in following other companies in case they eventually provide Rails support.</p>
  
  <p>2) How has your experience been with these companies?</p>