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Good points. Keep in mind the OP is talking about a 14x multiple of annual run rate, rather than trailing 12. He's calculating annual run rate as 12x his most recent month. Conside…

Rob, best of luck to you and the Twilio team while fixing and recovering from this incident. We've been with Twilio for years and have received excellent service. Billing issues ar…

I see your point about growth, but I disagree over the term bootstrap. I interpret bootstrap to be about external investment. Its possible to have a high-growth company (a "startup…

I second the vote for Blue Box. We moved from Heroku 8 months ago and have been extremely happy. I agree with grrrando, there were a few instances of slow responses during setup, b…

The Humanscale switch mouse works well for a hybrid vertical / standard mouse. http://www.humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=... I use one daily and really like it, a…

Here's a discussion about that point in the original article's comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5216553 The conclusion is that it will buy you a bit more time, but doe…

Wonder how all of these people are feeling right now.. http://success.heroku.com/

We're with bluebox.net and have been very happy.

It is quite an accusation, but I'm far from a bystander in this issue. I have extensive, documented communication with Heroku engineers over the course of 1.5 years (Feb 2011 - Jun…

"Forgetting who is right and wrong" The right vs wrong issue here is not the proper way to architect a router. The issue is that Heroku glossed over an extremely important aspect o…

I had a string of similar requests with Heroku between Feb 2011 and June 2012, before we migrated off their platform. I would complain about h12 errors, they would tell me to upgra…

We moved our Twilio app off Heroku for the same reasons. Extensive optimizations and we would still get timeouts on Twilio callbacks. The routing dynamics should be explained bette…