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by toomanybeersies 2230 days ago
Rails on Heroku is about the most inefficient combination you can get for a web server.

I've always thought of it as the platform you use for running toy apps with maybe a couple of dozen users at most and a low load. It's incredibly quick and easy to get a Rails app running on Heroku, a couple of hours at most. But you pay (in dollars and performance) for this.
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pdimitar 2230 days ago
You'd be surprised. I know companies paying $2000+ a month for Heroku and are still having performance problems with Rails.

(Then again, they have them with Phoenix as well but to a lesser extent.)

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jordanthoms 2230 days ago
Yeah, Heroku performance on shared dynos is really not great. The variability is very high also, so you'll get some requests seemingly randomly timing out. The dedicated performance dynos are better, but even more expensive. We were on Heroku for a long time but as the scale got too much we migrated to Google Kubernetes Engine which has been great.
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