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Re: Heroku is down for the third time today

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Post by StavrosK »

qeorge wrote: post #12
ayb wrote: post #3

I use Heroku for subscription software services, online retail stores, and phone ordering system for our staff. Right now all of our sites are failing with 503 errors. Our store is down and when one of our employees went to take a phone order they got a "Welcome to your new app" message. I've been a big evangelist of Heroku since we migrated over last year, but I'm getting deeply concerned about the elevated error ra…

Does Heroku have an SLA? (I could not find it) At some point they're exposing themselves to serious risk. Rackspace had to pay out ~$3MM (in free service credits) after an outage in 2009: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-rackspace-outag...

This is offtopic, but what's MM? What's the second M for?

Re: Heroku is down for the third time today

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Post by jcsalterego »

StavrosK wrote: post #31
qeorge wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Heroku have an SLA? (I could not find it) At some point they're exposing themselves to serious risk. Rackspace had to pay out ~$3MM (in free service credits) after an outage in 2009: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-rackspace-outag...

This is offtopic, but what's MM? What's the second M for?

M = 1000 in Roman numerals, but the confusing bit is not reading them like Roman numerals (2000) but rather interpreting them as one thousand thousands, or one million.

Re: Heroku is down for the third time today

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Post by StavrosK »

jcsalterego wrote: post #33
StavrosK wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is offtopic, but what's MM? What's the second M for?

M = 1000 in Roman numerals, but the confusing bit is not reading them like Roman numerals (2000) but rather interpreting them as one thousand thousands, or one million.

Hmm, so who uses this? How is it better than just saying $3M?

Re: Heroku is down for the third time today

#35

Post by adammichaelc »

vegashacker wrote: post #6

It just occurred to me that you know you've made some pretty serious traction as a startup when HN posts about your company no longer have something like "(YC W08)" appended to the end.

I think it has to do with Heroku's target market being so similar (identical?) to HN's demographic. If that weren't the case, I doubt we would all recognize Heroku so easily.

Re: Heroku is down for the third time today

#36

Post by marclove »

StavrosK wrote: post #34
jcsalterego wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

M = 1000 in Roman numerals, but the confusing bit is not reading them like Roman numerals (2000) but rather interpreting them as one thousand thousands, or one million.

Hmm, so who uses this? How is it better than just saying $3M?

This came up in a thread a while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483667). Bottom line is that "MM" comes from the banking/finance world. In banking, $3M actually means $3,000 and $3MM means $3,000,000.

Re: Heroku is down for the third time today

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Post by jbarham »

StavrosK wrote: post #34
jcsalterego wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

M = 1000 in Roman numerals, but the confusing bit is not reading them like Roman numerals (2000) but rather interpreting them as one thousand thousands, or one million.

Hmm, so who uses this? How is it better than just saying $3M?

MM is the standard abbreviation for million in the financial world. "The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."

Re: Heroku is down for the third time today

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Post by StavrosK »

marclove wrote: post #36
StavrosK wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, so who uses this? How is it better than just saying $3M?

This came up in a thread a while back ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483667 ). Bottom line is that "MM" comes from the banking/finance world. In banking, $3M actually means $3,000 and $3MM means $3,000,000.

I see, thank you. I prefer the SI, kilodollars, megadollars, etc.

Re: Heroku is down for the third time today

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Post by edanm »

Goosey wrote: post #24
ayb wrote: post #3

I use Heroku for subscription software services, online retail stores, and phone ordering system for our staff. Right now all of our sites are failing with 503 errors. Our store is down and when one of our employees went to take a phone order they got a "Welcome to your new app" message. I've been a big evangelist of Heroku since we migrated over last year, but I'm getting deeply concerned about the elevated error ra…

Are there any companies that provide 'server host failure' insurance for instances like this? It seems like a possible opportunity.

Don't know specifically about "server failure" insurance, but I assume it exists. There is insurance for practically everything. For example, an Uncle of my friend builds home security systems, and he is insured in case a home he has secured is ever broken into anyway.

Re: Heroku is down for the third time today

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Post by davidamcclain »

awt wrote: post #10

I have an app running on Heroku. Interestingly, it caches itself using HTML 5 application cache, so most people won't even notice the site is down. Need to make sure the background network ops are fault tolerant though.

Interesting. Care to share what you're doing/what the heck that means?
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