Ask HN: How many Dynos does your Heroku app use?

#1

Post by sumeetjain » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 7:16 PM UTC

I host all of my Rails apps on Heroku, and they all perform well on 1 Dyno. I'm curious to know what some of you have found to be the needed number of Dynos for your apps - many of which I'm sure are more intensive than mine.

If you can, some details about your Dyno usage and app load would be interesting to know too.

Re: Ask HN: How many Dynos does your Heroku app use?

#2

Post by sumeetjain » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 7:28 PM UTC

All of my apps get minor traffic only. The most popular one gets less than 1000 unique visitors per day and runs on 1 Dyno.

Re: Ask HN: How many Dynos does your Heroku app use?

#3

Post by meskyanichi » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 8:11 PM UTC

You might've already seen this, but if not, this is pretty interesting to see: http://success.heroku.com/

Click on the "Read Success Story" links for each app. It shows how many web dynos, worker dynos, and what add-ons and database are being used. Might also provide some information in the actual "story" regarding traffic and what not.

Re: Ask HN: How many Dynos does your Heroku app use?

#4

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 8:16 PM UTC

meskyanichi wrote: post #3

You might've already seen this, but if not, this is pretty interesting to see: http://success.heroku.com/ Click on the "Read Success Story" links for each app. It shows how many web dynos, worker dynos, and what add-ons and database are being used. Might also provide some information in the actual "story" regarding traffic and what not.

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Re: Ask HN: How many Dynos does your Heroku app use?

#5

Post by ApolloRising » Wed, Jul 27, 2011, 7:57 AM UTC

It's not the Dyno cost that will hurt, the database cost is the one where you will end up paying for an intensive site generally.