From 65de734ee25246961d18ef1eaa9c2f05d7f8f581 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sahat Yalkabov Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:37:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Removed Procfile and Update README accordingly. Not necessary for Heroku deployment. --- Procfile | 1 - README.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) delete mode 100755 Procfile diff --git a/Procfile b/Procfile deleted file mode 100755 index e1d4131b07..0000000000 --- a/Procfile +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -web: node app.js diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 21951c4b6e..345993d54c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ Deployment Once you are ready to deploy your app, you will need to create an account with a cloud platform to host it. These are not the only choices, but they are my top picks. Create an account with **MongoLab** and then pick one of the 4 providers below. Once again, there are plenty of other choices and you are not limited to just the ones listed below. From my -experience, **Heroku** is the easiest to get started with, it will automatically restart your node.js process when it crashes, custom domain support on free accounts, hot push deployments, and *Hackathon Starter* already includes `Procfile`, which is necessary for deployment to **Heroku**. +experience, **Heroku** is the easiest to get started with, it will automatically restart your node.js process when it crashes, custom domain support on free accounts and zero-downtime deployments. - Open [mongolab.com](https://mongolab.com) website