100k/minute !!! And I was excited about our 1.4k/minute... As far as I can tell:
Using the UI at api.heroku.com you can get up to 24 dynos. Using the CLI, 100. > heroku dynos 101 ! Dynos not allowed My guess is your DB will keel over and die way before the dynos run out. And upgrading the DB is a long winded process: upgrade plan, go into maintenance mode, make a backup, restore the backup... Hours for our app. -christos On 3 Feb 2011, at 15:08, Neil Middleton wrote: > This week in the UK we had the launch of police.uk, an Django based site > hosted on EC2. Pretty much straight away it went down through load. From > talking to the developers, it transpires that they were seeing 100,000+ > requests per minute, and had to draft in several hundred more EC2 instances > to cope. > > Which leads me to a tasty hypothetical question. If for instance I wanted to > launch a site like that on Heroku, are there any limits to where you can > scale too and how long it might take? I know from experience that I can get > 50 dynos within a couple of seconds, but surely there must be a point where > this is a little harder to provision? Are there any known limits? What > happens if I want, say, 5000 dynos right now? At what point does the DB > layer start to suffer? How would Heroku handle a site of this magnitude > appearing 'all of a sudden'? > > -- > Neil Middleton > > http://about.me/neilmiddleton > The internet's most comprehensive source for all things Neil Middleton > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To post to this group, send email to heroku@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to heroku@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
