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I agree with this argument, but there's plenty of work hours in the day, and 2 PM Eastern is just about the worst one to pick. We try to start scheduled mainten
by ryanbrunner 12y ago
I agree with this argument, but there's plenty of work hours in the day, and 2 PM Eastern is just about the worst one to pick. We try to start scheduled maintenance around 8 AM - that way we have fully refreshed devs ready to address any problems, and if something does go wrong, it's a relatively low-traffic time for our application.
- _bpo 12y agoThe reality is that there is no good time for a large-scale platform to go down. I'd speculate that 8am PDT would be worse for Heroku, as their business seems largely split between the US and Europe, so downtime then would upset everyone... but that's just speculation. You can't build a company of developers selling products to developers while fleeing the working hours of developers.