If you if you set your cache headers properly, for something like a blog, you can easily scale up to a huge number of visitors.
Cache hits are free and fast with Heroku's Varnish layer. Alex On May 23, 11:15 pm, "Mike P." <michael...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering how you all are handling your blogs while using Heroku > as a host? Do you use something like RadiantCMS, or do you host your > blog on a separate subdomain elsewhere (e.g.http://blog.mysite.com). > > I noticed a while back that Shopify had their main site hosted > elsewhere, and then whenever someone clicked on their Plans and > Pricing page, it would redirect them to their Heroku server > (specifically, to a page likehttps://app.shopify.com/signup). I think > this is a pretty nice solution, and would avoid me having to pay for > scaling on blog visitors. > > On the other hand, it would be nice to be able to automatically scale > with a burst of blog/website visitors. > > Any ideas on this? How does the single dyno hold up for website and > blog visitors? > > Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, > Mike -- 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.
