[thetrumanshow]

Free idea here. Create an add-on that monitors your load and tells you when you've probably got too many workers and dynos.

Credit goes to the guy who got stuck with the $1300 Heroku bill... he inspired this idea.

link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1688904

[zach]

Even easier would be an add-on that allows you to bump up your resources for a pre-determined time period, after which they return to baseline values.

That way there would be no need for further user intervention at all.

[siong1987]

an addon might be overkilled. try the heroku gem.

you can check out the example here: http://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling

for worker, you might have to track the number of jobs in your queue. for dyno, you might have to track the number of requests you get within a time period.

[sabat]

This is such a good and obviously needed idea that it makes me want to run out and implement it tonight. (No guarantees that I'll do it, but I'm 100% sure someone will.)