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Heroku down for production and staging apps

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Re: Heroku down for production and staging apps

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Post by 1qaz2wsx3edc »

sync wrote: post #8
julioademar wrote: post #2

I still dream of the day they'll let us set up different availability zones. Not that I'm sure this wouldn't occur, mind you.

Dynos already run in different availability zones: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/production-check You can take that a step further by running dynos in the European (eu-west-1) region: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/regions

> Multiple dynos are also more likely to run on different physical infrastructure (for example, separate AWS Availability Zones), further increasing redundancy.

It's not guaranteed. As I understand it, it's random.

And as for regions. They only help you locate content to a closer region. You cannot use them for balancing/redundancy. As any data or third party add-on you use, will manage it's data in it's own specific zone. Thus creating latency issues.

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Post by richardwhiuk »

kxu wrote: post #10
julioademar wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's still in Beta though.

I'm running a production webapp since May on the Heroku EU region, not a scratch since then. It's a Beta suited for production apps since February: "Beta Testers, Heroku Europe is ready to begin running your production apps! Create an app in the region: $ heroku create --region eu Then add add-ons, deploy, and scale as usual. Please note we're still adding capacity in this area, so contact us if you expect to run mor…

"Please don’t tweet, blog, or talk about this feature publicly until we announce it ourselves." - but commenting on Hacker News is fine :p

Re: Heroku down for production and staging apps

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Post by chubot »

webbruce wrote: post #6

Yeah, seems to be Amazon, not Heroku this time.

Note from last time: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/151

"This post will reference the AWS services that we use behind the scenes so that we can be very specific. Note that although we will be discussing various AWS service failures, we don't blame them for what our customers experienced in any way. Heroku takes 100% of the responsibility for the downtime affecting our customers last week."

In other words, they shouldn't be exposing AWS outages to users (although as as long as they use a single cloud provider that's impossible to avoid in general.)

Re: Heroku down for production and staging apps

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Post by justinsb »

oliverdavenport wrote: post #5
crashoverdrive wrote: post #3

I'd be curious to see the numbers of how often Heroku pushes code to production, and also how often those pushes break the build.

Is this issue not to do with the AWS problems?

For some reason, that story seems to have fallen off the front page, so people may not know that the root cause is not Heroku:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6380772

Re: Heroku down for production and staging apps

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Post by bjeanes »

richardwhiuk wrote: post #12
kxu wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm running a production webapp since May on the Heroku EU region, not a scratch since then. It's a Beta suited for production apps since February: "Beta Testers, Heroku Europe is ready to begin running your production apps! Create an app in the region: $ heroku create --region eu Then add add-ons, deploy, and scale as usual. Please note we're still adding capacity in this area, so contact us if you expect to run mor…

"Please don’t tweet, blog, or talk about this feature publicly until we announce it ourselves." - but commenting on Hacker News is fine :p

It's no longer a private beta...

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/24/europe-region

Re: Heroku down for production and staging apps

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Post by gabrtv »

julioademar wrote: post #2

I still dream of the day they'll let us set up different availability zones. Not that I'm sure this wouldn't occur, mind you.

If you need deeper control of your application platform infrastructure, you should check out something like http://deis.io/. You can run a private Heroku in any EC2 region, zones, etc.

Running your own PaaS is not for the faint of heart -- and Heroku certainly saves you time and headache -- but it's nice to have a private PaaS option that is Heroku compatible.

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