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Is Heroku still in beta? The name has been around for a while. I would have thought the platform would have stabilized and complete outages were very unlikely.
by bobsy 14y ago
Is Heroku still in beta? The name has been around for a while. I would have thought the platform would have stabilized and complete outages were very unlikely.
In the past 30 days they have had 2 outages which have lasted more than 2 hours. That's a lot of down time.
- espeed 14y agoThis is an Amazon outage.
- parasight 14y agoNot very interesting for a customer of Heroku.
- betterth 14y agoAny customer of Heroku who didn't weigh the cost/benefit of Cloud hosting is a fool and deserves to watch their app have downtime. Cloud hosting is fantastic but it's a trade off. There are so many layers of abstraction between you and the hardware that you are completely at the mercy of one, two or (more!) technical organizations, each with their own support systems and varying levels of opacity into their infrastructure. The fact that Amazon went down IS VERY interesting for a customer of Heroku. And if it isn't, than that customer is a fool for outsourcing so much of their system without even understanding the risks involved.
- krosaen 14y agoI don't know, I think heroku should provide the value proposition that - hey we have it covered, if we rely on another cloud it's on use to build in redundancy and reliability atop it so as not to burden you, the app developer who is paying us to take care of operations and scaling. What would be interesting to me about an Amazon outage being behind a heroku outage would be to keep a tally, and if heroku didn't manage to build in more reliability to be resilient to even an amazon outage in a particular region, to question whether they were a good fit.
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- rplnt 14y agoAnd Amazon had a power outage. That does not mean that customers can't (or won't) blame Amazon.