My leaderboards, user-created levels and other miscellaneous bits of Playtomic run on AWS via MongoHQ and I've spent 1/2 the day answering emails explaining the

My leaderboards, user-created levels and other miscellaneous bits of Playtomic run on AWS via MongoHQ and I've spent 1/2 the day answering emails explaining the situation. On the plus side MongoHQ are planning to introduce the ability to mirror databases onto our own servers which is going to be frigging awesome. It at least highlighted another issue - because users are trying to access databases that don't exist they're taking ages to time out which is bogging down the servers' other thousands of requests/second.