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At least then, it won't be "Heroku is down", it will be "Heroku West is down" or some such thing.
Heroku is a great platform and has come a really long way -- but it could really use some competition. Some of the main issues that would be resolved quickly with competition are: - it would be possible to have the non-DB part of your heroku app be spread across multiple availability zones. - worker pricing would be much lower or based on actual CPU cycles used. - add-on providers would be vetted more thoroughly befo…
you mean like AWS, EngineYard, appfog, dotCloud?
Eventually, they need to offer multiple independent regions, so if you're inclined (like Netflix does with AWS) you can develop a way to fail-over to another region. At least then, it won't be "Heroku is down", it will be "Heroku West is down" or some such thing.
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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.
Honestly, that's pious bullshit. It's the thing people keep saying every time Heroku gets mentioned is that it'd do better than you would yourself for availability, but you'd have to be borderline incompetent to have as much downtime with a more traditional VPS / hardware hosting to match the combined Heroku / AWS downtime. We moved all but one of our Rails apps off of Heroku precisely because of the frequent downtim…
They went down literally the moment our demo thing started. I swear this is because of me.
They went down literally the moment our demo thing started. I swear this is because of me.
http://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/
RedHat was timing its blog postings in anticipation of this: https://openshift.redhat.com/community/blogs/new-openshift-r...