[programminggeek]

Wow, I feel like Heroku is really dropping the ball here. Like, they are acting punch drunk or something. Basically all this says is "we hear you and we are sorry". They could have posted that a day ago. This still says nothing about what is wrong and what they are doing to fix it.

Also, I'm not sure at what point this is, but at some point around say $3-5k a month, (100+ dynos) you really should rethink using Heroku. At that point and higher, you really ought to know about your infrastructure enough to optimize for scale. The "just add more dynos" approach is stupid because adding more web fronts is often the lazy/expensive approach. Add a few queues or some smarter caching and you'll need fewer web servers. Throw in something like Varnish where you can and you need even fewer servers. Point being, at some point scaling is no longer "free", it takes work and Heroku isn't magic.

[7952]

At $3-5k a month Heroku may as well start offering a consultancy service rather than hosting. Wanting unlimited scaling without needing local talent is a reasonable thing to want, but its unrealistic to expect if from one single platform.

[ceejayoz]

A lot of their success stories at http://success.heroku.com/ are sites you'd expect to be spending the $3-5k/month.

If their platform can't handle higher amounts of load, they really should indicate as such.