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Yet another reminder that well services like heroku are great, its up to you to make sure you have the appropriate redundancy in place to make sure your critica
by dholowiski 15y ago
Yet another reminder that well services like heroku are great, its up to you to make sure you have the appropriate redundancy in place to make sure your critical app doesn't go down. If you host anything critical on heroku, you _need_ a backup server elsewhere (not ec2!)
- lukev 15y agoBut doesn't that defeat the whole point of Heroku? If your app is running redundantly elsewhere, that means that you've already done all the work to set up the stuff that Heroku normally provides. And if you've already done that work, why use Heroku at all?
- wilfra 15y agoThis is true. Heroku needs to be redundant. This shouldn't happen on Heroku.
- edouard1234567 15y agoI agree but we'll need to know more about caused this, hopefully they'll be a little more transparent than usual given the severity of this failure. In the meantime I have a new startup idea: Heroku failover cloud hosting.
- imbriaco 15y agoI am probably biased, since I wrote many of them, but I like to think Heroku has a pretty good reputation for writing meaningful public post-mortems when there are large scale outages. It's safe to give them the benefit of the doubt that they'll continue.