Re: DDOS attack alleviation?

2010-09-30 Thread railsnerd
Just as an aside Does Varnishing as much content as you can protect you from DDOS? It would cover your app backend but is Varnished content on Heroku so heavily cached that it is impenitrable? I assume it must be, since a Reddit attack is as bad as DDOS, and Vanish is what people recommend f

Re: Heroku Mongoid config and how it works

2010-09-30 Thread Bradley
Well I'm still baffled then. You said above that the only thing set was the MONGO_HQ url, was that when you did a `heroku config` because in that instance you're right, I only see MONGOHQ_URL. Is that to mean then that these are the only environment vars set by Heroku itself?? Because as I menti

Re: Heroku Mongoid config and how it works

2010-09-30 Thread Oren Teich
Nope - the only thing an add-on does is set one config var - MONOGHQ_URL in this case. No other magic. Some add-ons like new relic will also install a gem or plugin, but mongo hq isn't one of them. Those are the only actions an add-on can take. Oren On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Bradley wr

Re: Can't push my database

2010-09-30 Thread Olivier R
Once again, just update your heroku and taps gems and you'll be fine. On Sep 28, 4:22 pm, MSc wrote: > I get the same error message when trying to pull databases from any of > our apps running on heroku. > > It used to work fine. Last time I pulled a DB was on friday before the > weekend. I notic