scale up to 6 dynos for a couple hours after you hit the front page on reddit Scale "up" to 6 dynos? Even if 6 of these were equivalent to 6 of the fastest EC

scale up to 6 dynos for a couple hours after you hit the front page on reddit Scale "up" to 6 dynos? Even if 6 of these were equivalent to 6 of the fastest EC2 instances (which is very unlikely), that's hardly the kind of hardware to survive a reddit'ing, if you serve any dynamic content at all.