Re:AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others
by corford on Monday October 22, 2012 @04:29PM
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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.
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.