You would add dynos to increase the number of rails instances that are run concurrently, so you can scale your site. Workers would correspond to background jobs.
-Terence On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 13:10 -0800, DAZ wrote: > Thanks Oren, > > That's useful as a starting point. What do I use to 'see how it goes' > - sorry I'm new to this game and not sure if I'd know if the site was > performing well or not. What do you mean when you say 'scaling traffic > instantly' - why would I add dynos and/or workers? > > cheers, > > DAZ > > On Mar 8, 9:06 pm, Oren Teich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Everything is fully backed for disaster recovery purposes. We don't provide > > user accessible backups - it's only in case something goes wrong with the > > systems. This includes your DB and your app. > > > > Start on a koi + 1 dyno, and see how it goes. You can scale the traffic > > instantly. > > > > Oren > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, DAZ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm planning on launching a production site using Heroku, but have a > > > few questions: > > > > > 1) Are sites that are hosted on Heroku backed up or do I have to do it > > > manually - what is the procedure for doing this? > > > 2) Is the database backed up as well? > > > 3) How does the pricing work? This site has around 500 unique visitors > > > a day, generating 4000 hits. It is a basic CMS site with a database > > > backend. Do I need to choose what type of plan I have in advance or > > > will I be told if any limits are being exceeded? > > > > > Thanks for any help anybody can give me, > > > > > DAZ > > > > > -- > > > 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]<heroku%[email protected]> > > > . > > > 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 [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.
