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Re:Github: Major Service Outage by bgentry on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:44PM (#4671010)
They were already running their status site on Heroku prior to the last major service outage.
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Re:Github: Major Service Outage by adgar2 on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:51PM (#4671040)
This is correct. They needed ~90 dynos to keep up with about 500 qps on their status page in the last outage.

Source: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=4524489

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Re:Github: Major Service Outage by gojomo on Thursday October 18, 2012 @05:00PM (#4671089)
Should probably throw a Fastly or CloudFlare cache in front of a single dyno.
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Re:Github: Major Service Outage by adgar2 on Thursday October 18, 2012 @11:59PM (#4672211)
That would suggest people in charge know what they're doing.
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