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Heroku is on AWS, so I'm not sure that would help. I agree cloud services have disadvantages but you pay a significant productivity tax to manage your own hardw
by ashrust 15y ago
Heroku is on AWS, so I'm not sure that would help. I agree cloud services have disadvantages but you pay a significant productivity tax to manage your own hardware, otherwise you're always putting your faith in someone else to keep your site online.
- nsxwolf 15y agoA Heroku outage is not necessarily caused by an AWS outage.
- gnaritas 15y agoNot necessarily, but I think history would show, usually.
- sgk284 15y agoIn our experience, Heroku has orders of magnitude more issues than AWS. Look at their status page for a list of issues since only Jan 25th: https://status.heroku.com/ https://status.heroku.com/ They pretty much have an issue every other day. Sure it usually only effects a small subset of users, but you wind up getting bit by them more often than necessary. We were on Heroku for more than a year before we couldn't tolerate the sporadic outages and performance degradations anymore.
- gnaritas 15y agoOK, can't argue with that.
- nsxwolf 15y agoBut you also don't automatically get AWS's level of reliability by skipping Heroku and maintaining your own deployments on AWS. Once you go that route your uptime becomes AWS minus your competence level. Could easily be worse than Heroku, especially for a very small shop.
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