Ops - you're right, it should go to the same server because of the hash ring.
Guess I just got confused because we didn't always have it :)

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Chris Hanks
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Really? Why doesn't Heroku partition certain URLs to certain servers
> (through a hashing scheme or something similar)?
>
> I'm curious now :) How many servers are there?
>
>
>
> On Sep 9, 5:18 pm, Pedro Belo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On a side note though, we run multiple caching servers - so there's no
>> guarantee that Bob's request will hit the same server.
>>
>> If you need more control to your cache we recommend using Memcache.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Chris Hanks
>>
>>
>>
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Ok, thanks!
>>
>> > On Sep 9, 5:09 pm, Pedro Belo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> At the time you told Heroku, 1pm.
>>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Pedro
>>
>> >> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Chris Hanks
>>
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > I've read through the caching docs, and "Things Caches Do", but I'm
>> >> > still not clear on something, so here I am.
>>
>> >> > Suppose I signal Heroku to cache a page for an hour (setting the
>> >> > 'Cache-Control' header to 'public, max-age=3600'). Alice visits the
>> >> > page at noon, and Heroku stashes it in Varnish to expire at 1 p.m.
>> >> > It's also cached in Alice's browser until 1 p.m., so that if she
>> >> > requests it again before then, the request won't even reach Heroku.
>>
>> >> > Bob visits the same page at 12:30. Heroku still has it in Varnish, so
>> >> > it returns it from there, and it's cached in Bob's browser. My
>> >> > question is, when will Bob's browser expire it? At 1 p.m. (the time my
>> >> > app told Heroku/Varnish it was good until), or 1:30 (one hour from the
>> >> > time Bob received it)?
>>
>> >> > Thanks
>>
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