Heroku is definitely up to the job. I've stored 100s of thousands of tweets a day using Heroku workers and a larger Amazon RDS instance. Have a look at scaling

Heroku is definitely up to the job. I've stored 100s of thousands of tweets a day using Heroku workers and a larger Amazon RDS instance. Have a look at scaling your Resque workers up for your daily task, then back down once you're done. I haven't used the following technique, but it looks sound: http://blog.darkhax.com/2010/07/30/auto-scale-your-resque-workers-on-heroku http://blog.darkhax.com/2010/07/30/auto-scale-your-resque-wo...