Not us, someone else. >From what I gather, at 7am they were doing ~5m hits per hour. On Feb 3, 2011 8:26 PM, "John Norman" <j...@7fff.com> wrote: > You had 1666+ requests/second, and had to bring in "several hundred" > more EC2 instances? > > Those numbers seem off. > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Neil Middleton <neil.middle...@gmail.com> 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<heroku%2bunsubscr...@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 <heroku%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. >
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