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Why not get yourself ONE beefy server? (or two) That should be able to handle your 150 requests per second, simplify your architecture a lot, and buying it woul
by jules 14y ago
Why not get yourself ONE beefy server? (or two) That should be able to handle your 150 requests per second, simplify your architecture a lot, and buying it would be cheaper than 1 month on Heroku (at $20,000/month).
- sabat 14y agoBecause when that one beefy server goes tits-up, you're out of business. Same with two.
- jules 14y agoWhy? The second is idling until the first fails, then the second takes over. Unless both fail simultaneously of course, for example due to power outage, but then your 40 servers will also fail simultaneously. Not to mention that with just one running server there are a lot fewer failure scenarios.
- ehm_may 14y agoAnd when AWS goes down, your heroku dynos go tits up