Has the pricing plan been announced? Jeff
On Jun 18, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Oren Teich <o...@heroku.com> wrote: > We launched replication into beta this week. We have many large > customers using it already in production. Drop a note to > b...@heroku.com and he can hook you up with the details. > > Oen > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Karl <threadh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a client app that will be coming online soon, and one of the >> the requirements is that it generates non-repeating serial numbers >> with no vacancies. There can NEVER, EVER be a repeated serial number. >> If you are curious, it's financial transactions between countries that >> are monitored by the FINRA (and others) and they use the serial >> numbers to detect fraud. >> >> So, let's say there is a one-in-a-billion chance that Heroku loses >> some of my database, no matter how small. They, or we, can restore >> from backups, but there is no possible way I can determine that >> records could have been created after the last backup. I'm not so >> concerned about system downtime, it's potential data loss. >> >> As I understand, Heroku does not provide any form of replication for >> its PostgreSQL offerings (psst, I would be willing to pay $$$). Until >> then I need to come up with a fault tolerant scheme of data audit >> trails. >> >> First thought - just use Amazon RDS. But whoa, it's really expensive. >> My clients won't float $3K per month just for data storage. But maybe >> I'm pricing it wrong and don't understand their pricing model. >> >> Second thought - Lotsa backups! Better, but still no guarantee. >> >> Third thought - MongoDB or Cloudant. I could use either to write audit >> logs, essentially duplicating my 'serialized documents', but not the >> entire db. Since I only need to verify that every new document >> generated is serialized, seem easy to hit MongoDB/Cloudant to find the >> last document store and if it does not match the last one in >> PostgreSQL shut the app down until I can manually restore from the >> audit log. >> >> Seem fairly easy and straightforward. >> >> Has anyone else done this? >> How successful were you? any gotchas? >> Any gems out there that can do this? >> >> Advice appreciated. >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
