Wow. 10,000 apps! What a immense user base!! That makes me feel much better for the long run...this looks like it should be able to stay and be maintained.
How I came to be one of the lucky handful with thrice weekly multihour downtimes, who knows! I shan't plunk down the bucks and time to move to hostingrails. Pray for me! e On Apr 11, 2:22 am, James Lindenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is EC2 the right choice? What about mod_rails? > > We are interested in providing a platform where you just worry about > your application code, and we do the rest. We are constantly > evaluating the options on our side for providing the most robust, > scalable platform. We are working with Amazon to iron out the current > kinks, and we are collaborating with several other companies for our > cloud infrastructure. We look forward to being able to announce more > about this in the future. > > As far as actual software choices in the stack, we are always > evaluating and trying to select the best options. If mod_rails, for > example, becomes a stable, viable choice for running Rails apps, we > will certainly adopt it. It is unlikely, however, that mod_rails by > itself will solve all of the problems we need to solve in order to > provide a smooth cloud deployment experience. Ultimately, we will > always be working to provide the smoothest stack, using the latest and > greatest options. > > I should also note that while we're usually working with things long > before they are announced, we look forward to hearing from you about > emerging stack components that we might not be aware of - always happy > to hear about and evaluate new options. > > - James > > On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:11 AM, James Lindenbaum wrote: > > > > > Wow, thank you all for sharing your thoughts and concerns, it's really > > useful for us to hear. I'm sorry we've been a bit slow to respond to > > emails in recent days, let me try to give you some updates and answer > > some questions. > > > While it may not be apparent from activity on this list, we have been > > growing pretty substantially. We are now up to 9,000 developers, and > > over 10,000 apps have been built. More importantly than the growth in > > total developers, is that the actual usage has been increasing > > dramatically - more serious development work, more apps being built, > > more developers really putting Heroku to the test - trying demanding > > things, testing every nook and cranny. > > > This is really great, and we can't thank all of you, our beta users, > > enough for the value you are providing by using the system at this > > stage. The "beta" label has been abused lately, with Gmail and Flickr > > leaving it on their apps for years - that's not how we mean beta. > > What we mean, is that we are actively changing things around in > > underlying layers to adapt to the usage patterns we are seeing and the > > edge cases users are discovering. > > > We have made many significant changes and improvements lately, and > > some users have experienced reliability issues while those changes > > were being made, particularly the last week or so. On the plus side, > > we can say with certainty that the platform is more and more robust > > every day, and out of 9,000+ users, only a handful have been impacted > > by our remodeling. For those of you who were affected, we sincerely > > apologize. All of our efforts are going into assuring a stable > > platform. > > > We have a really large vision for Heroku moving forward, and have only > > just begun to implement it - we have many many exciting things in > > store for you. Before we get to them though, we have to get a few > > things right in the foundation of the platform, and that's what we've > > been focussed on. That's also what you've all been so vitally helping > > us with. > > > Thanks again to everyone who has used Heroku, sent us feedback, or > > commented here - you are the driving force behind Heroku. We are now > > expanding the Heroku team, and working on a bunch of things we can't > > wait to tell you about, so we hope you'll all stay tuned... > > > As always, please feel free to post to this list or email us > > privately. While sometimes we can't respond immediately, we read and > > value every single email. > > > - James > > > On Apr 10, 2008, at 8:32 PM, stephan wrote: > > >> It's been working for me. > >> Stephan > > >> On Apr 10, 6:05 am, Ed Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Started to add this to the Google apps thread, but decided to raise > >>> it. > > >>> Is Heroku Going to Work? > > >>> Trying to stay positive, yet right now, we're seeing multi-hour > >>> outages closer to daily than to weekly. I can't even start highly > >>> limited pre-alpha testing with that sort of uptime. > > >>> Is there reason for hope before summer? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. 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