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by 0nly1ife 5853 days ago
If you have a rails app, use heroku and rds.

How long has the app been growing? If you grow too fast FB will delete it without warning.
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flubba 5853 days ago
+1 for heroku. What exactly is RDS? I know its a relational database, but I couldn't figure out exactly what it was from its site.
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0nly1ife 5852 days ago
It is MySQL running on Amazon. I like it because you can scale a hot database up or down.
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makeee 5853 days ago
Launched it 2 days ago. It's a facebook connect website, so I think I'm okay.
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ronnier 5853 days ago
What's the justification for deleting apps that grow too fast?
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catch23 5853 days ago
In the past, lots of scammy/spammy apps grew fast by bribing the user to invite all of their friends etc. But you have to grow pretty fast for FB to see this and delete you, I doubt anyone can replicate that growth now since lots of the viral features were removed. Seems like the only way to mass a huge audience is to buy it with FB ads.
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0nly1ife 5852 days ago
They are assumed to be spammy.

My strategy for adopting the new api was to move the userbase from an existing app to a new one. Fb deleted the new app in the middle of the migration.

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