On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Brian Hammond<[email protected]> wrote: > I can setup throttling of a web service hosted on Heroku at the app > level fairly easily (e.g. rack middleware + memcache). However, this > causes a dyno to be busy for no reason; granted, for only a very short > time. > > It would be more efficient to handle this at the nginx level. Is > there any chance of customizing the nginx config for a Heroku-hosted > app/service to this (or other) end?
Start with Rack middleware and memcached: it's easier and cleaner. If you get to the point where the performance of your dynos is being substantially impacted by abuse (which I presume is what the throttling is for), contact us and we can work out a higher-performance solution together. Adam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
