Let's say you hosted your Diaspora or Status.net or whatever on your heroku server. You post something and it gets huge traffic and the server goes down. And th

Let's say you hosted your Diaspora or Status.net or whatever on your heroku server. You post something and it gets huge traffic and the server goes down. And this doesn't happen just for you but for lots of people on average. Who will maintain this? In this type of environment, you cannot make any assumptions on realtime delivery. That's what I mean by it's not a technology problem. You can use XMPP in Google Talk since most of the times you're doing 1:1 chat. Twitter does 1:N (where N goes up to as large as several millions), and this becomes a big deal. Does this make sense?