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Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others by brador on Monday October 22, 2012 @02:30PM (#4684620)
How quickly can you scale up on a spike? That's the key reason I use cloud hosting and it's something you won't know the power of until you need it.
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Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others by corford on Monday October 22, 2012 @04:29PM (#4685357)
Quicker than if I was on AWS and needed to scale it up tonight :)

Seriously though, because the costs are so much cheaper you just over provision the main machines slightly and keep a spare box or two ready to go. If that isn't enough to smooth out the spike then I guess at least you've got a nice problem to have.

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Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others by BryantD on Monday October 22, 2012 @03:06PM (#4684864)
So architect your infrastructure to handle spike loads in the cloud and baseline traffic elsewhere.
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Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others by UnoriginalGuy on Monday October 22, 2012 @03:47PM (#4685127)
But couldn't you throw something like Cloudflare in front of your solution to eat some of that spike?
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