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How many times does this have to happen before heroku spreads across multiple regions?
Extremely nerve wracking for new startups like ours.
Come on not another power issue, what happened to the generators... and the back up generators that they fixed few weeks back.
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Or if we just built our power grid underground like rational people.
Until earthquakes.
MASSIVE Storms in VA area where us-east-1 is. 326,000 customers without power already, worst lightning I have seen in my 20 years of life. Sky is intense blue/green/purple. This is most likely what the issue is
Heroku's uptime for June is going to be.. not so hot.
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No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.
Hopefully one day it will be feasible to host our computing architecture in space and avoid all these terrestrial obstructions.
How many times does this have to happen before heroku spreads across multiple regions?
You say this like they can just snap their fingers and provide regional services.
But anyone deploying a critical application to AWS makes a point of cross-region data replication. Heroku have long known that they lose potential customers to, say, Engine Yard as a result of only hosting at US-East.
One can only conclude that this is a clear business decision on their part. I can hardly believe that Heroku's engineers are incapable of it. Indeed I would be very surprised to learn that they haven't brought up an instance of their platform at, say, US-West, for testing or proof-of-concept purposes.
Of course, productising that is a different matter. Extending the control plane, front end, and pricing/billing systems might have considerable associated project cost. Perhaps they have concluded that the costs outweigh the additional revenue. Or, just haven't got around to it yet.