Heroku and ip mask

Question

I\'m building a shopping site which uses a service which allows credit card payments (tranzilla), the service is requiring an IP or IP mask from which it will allow requests

Answer 1

You can also use Apigee to wrap the API in question - http://app.apigee.com/, and make your API call through Apigee instead of directly to the API in question. Then enter the IP that the Apigee call comes from, and you're set.

Answer 2

Yes, you can use a hosted VPN service to maintain a static IP Address in which to contact tranzilla. A proxy server might also work, however, using a public proxy server would be a bad idea.

Answer 3

There is now a new Heroku add-on called Proximo that gives you a static outbound IP address to connect to services with IP whitelists! At this time it's in private beta, and there is no pricing info available yet, but it seems like a promising solution: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/proximo