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Re: Heroku is down

#31

Post by zsherman » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:27 PM UTC

My apps are finally back up, how's everyone else doing?

Re: Heroku is down

#32

Post by Cushman » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:27 PM UTC

They went down literally the moment our demo thing started. I swear this is because of me.

Re: Heroku is down

#33

Post by bad_user » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

joshcrews wrote: post #25

joshcrews wrote: post #15

I checked 5 sites, all single dyno: 3 down, 2 up

update: all 5 down

I have 4 apps on 20 paid dynos. All of them down.

Re: Heroku is down

#34

Post by g0atbutt » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:30 PM UTC

As a newbie, I've really enjoyed deploying on Heroku. However these outages really terrify me. Is there an easy way to host a redundant version of your app outside of Heroku?

Re: Heroku is down

#35

Post by freditup » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:31 PM UTC

What kind of service guarantees does Heroku have?

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#36

Post by riffraff » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:32 PM UTC

switz wrote: post #18

If status.heroku goes down due to 500 errors (overloading) use https://status-old.heroku.com/

the incident specific page is up often when the main page is not, in this case

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/372

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#37

Post by kennystone » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:33 PM UTC

chao- wrote: post #24

bdesimone wrote: post #17

When will heroku have a multizone offering? I know most sites hosted on heroku are pet projects with no real need that type of uptime, but this type of downtime makes it impossible to use them as enterprise customers.

Agreed. We are finally scaling from "small scale production" to having actual customers we want to take care of. Worse, we began a huge marketing push this week and had been seeing promising results. Now we'll probably miss a boatload of potential customers. Heroku had been a joy to work with until now. I ask of you all (as most of you are far more experienced in these matters than I), what is the traditional practic…

Heroku is really good. You will probably have more downtime than them unless you hire a whole team of operations and admins and pay a lot of money for hosting. It may also take a while to build out the deployment and development tools they have.

Re: Heroku is down

#38

Post by masonhensley » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:35 PM UTC

joshcrews wrote: post #15

I checked 5 sites, all single dyno: 3 down, 2 up

2 of 3 up, all single dyno staticish sites; but it could be cloudflare propping them up with their cache.

Re: Heroku is down

#39

Post by philip1209 » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:37 PM UTC

g0atbutt wrote: post #34

As a newbie, I've really enjoyed deploying on Heroku. However these outages really terrify me. Is there an easy way to host a redundant version of your app outside of Heroku?

If you use Cloudflare it will serve a static version of the site until it is back online.

Re: Heroku is down

#40

Post by bretthoerner » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:38 PM UTC

http://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/