Interesting reading that and after reading: http://icelab.com.au/articles/money-stress-and-the-cloud/ http://icelab.com.au/articles/money-stress-and-the-cloud/

Interesting reading that and after reading: http://icelab.com.au/articles/money-stress-and-the-cloud/ http://icelab.com.au/articles/money-stress-and-the-cloud/ (tl;dr: Credit card processing was breaking because of the 30 second limit). Sounds like it would make sense for heroku to have a configurable timeout.