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Sounds like half of the startup world hasn't spent the time or the money to design their service to be redundant on top of AWS.
Fortunately for most, they dont have customers yet
That made me laugh. Am I a bad person?
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Re: Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST)
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Half the startup world is offline right now, yet the AWS status page is all greens with one "info" notice about EBS (which I doubt is the issue here). I'm glad to have moved off a fully AWS stack back to my own servers over a year ago. My uptime, bills, and stress level are all much improved.
Sounds like half of the startup world hasn't spent the time or the money to design their service to be redundant on top of AWS.
The sales pitch is kind of that it's already redundant. You know, RAID and load balancers and all.
Re: Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST)
#83Seems like someone posted a link to a project that made self-hosting a previously Heroku hosted site simple, but I can't find it now... ...would be cool if there was a Linux package (or distro) that you could boot-up and then just change your git remote to and have your app up-and-running on your own hardware.
I made Dokuen a few weeks ago, maybe that's what you're thinking of? If you're willing to live with a few warts, it's working pretty well for my personal use. My blog is still on Heroku so you can't really read about it now, but you can check out the code.
Re: Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST)
#84A few of my us-east-1d machines are down.
One of mine is as well. The load balancers also seem to be haywire.
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#85I've had so much more downtime with heroku/AWS than I ever had back when I was running my sites on slicehost.
I also feel like I've let my admin skills deteriorate because I've been dependent on heroku. Back when I was running everything myself, worst case scenario I could set up a new VPS from a backup in another datacenter. Now if heroku goes out I just have to twiddle my thumbs while I wait for updates.
Re: Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST)
#86Anyone know if Amazon Fresh is hosted on EC2? I had the worst connectivity and performance issues with their site earlier today...and now all of my sites are down.
Re: Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST)
#87If Heroku moved off of AWS they'd have better uptime and lower prices.
That'd depend where they moved to, wouldn't it?
At their size they need to be running and managing their own hardware. I'd use them more if it wasn't hundreds of dollars a month to host a few apps that might not be up when my customers are.
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#88Seems like someone posted a link to a project that made self-hosting a previously Heroku hosted site simple, but I can't find it now... ...would be cool if there was a Linux package (or distro) that you could boot-up and then just change your git remote to and have your app up-and-running on your own hardware.
I made Dokuen a few weeks ago, maybe that's what you're thinking of? If you're willing to live with a few warts, it's working pretty well for my personal use. My blog is still on Heroku so you can't really read about it now, but you can check out the code. https://github.com/peterkeen/dokuen
I saw this a while ago and will actually be using it very shortly to deploy 3-4 internal apps on our own mini cloud. I love Heroku and can't stand all of the open source "alternatives" like Cloud Foundry. Yours is exactly what I wanted and I can't wait to really start using it and contributing via github! Thanks again!
Re: Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST)
#89I've had so much more downtime with heroku/AWS than I ever had back when I was running my sites on slicehost. I also feel like I've let my admin skills deteriorate because I've been dependent on heroku. Back when I was running everything myself, worst case scenario I could set up a new VPS from a backup in another datacenter. Now if heroku goes out I just have to twiddle my thumbs while I wait for updates.
...or you can keep on working knowing that your services will be magically back online without you lifting a finger.
Re: Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST)
#90Seems like someone posted a link to a project that made self-hosting a previously Heroku hosted site simple, but I can't find it now... ...would be cool if there was a Linux package (or distro) that you could boot-up and then just change your git remote to and have your app up-and-running on your own hardware.
This was in the recent Heroku down thread. You might be interested in Stackato ( http://www.activestate.com/stackato ). It is based on Cloud Foundry, with numerous enhancements, including support for Heroku buildpacks ( http://docs.stackato.com/languages/buildpack.html ). Heroku-in-a-box - give it a try. BTW, while the point is to enable private paas, you won't get around the issues that hit sites like this without h…
Yeah I'm just evaluating options, if nothing else it would be excellent to have the equivalent of a "donut spare" on private hardware that we could throw on when events like this occur (although having done plenty of "self-hosted" sites during the first boom, I'm always running the numbers for either option).