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Our app is down because it's hosted on Heroku and it's frustrating because it seems like N Virginia is the least reliable Amazon datacenter. Every year it seem
by dave1619 14y ago
Our app is down because it's hosted on Heroku and it's frustrating because it seems like N Virginia is the least reliable Amazon datacenter. Every year it seems to go down a couple times for at least a couple hours.
Heroku should offer a choice between N Virginia and Oregon hosting (I think they're almost comparable in price nowadays). That way people who want more uptime/reliability can choose Oregon. Sure it will be further from Europe (but then it will be closer to Asia) and people can make that choice on their own.
But basing an entire hosting service on N Virginia doesn't make sense anymore, considering the history of major downtime in that region.
- nlh 14y agoOr better yet, Heroku should offer an add-on "instant failover" service that, for a premium of course, offers a package for multi-site (or, knowing they're 100% AWS, multi-datacenter) deployment with all of the best practices, etc. Seems like a logical next step for them (or a competitor) given the recent spate of outages.