It really depends a lot on how well you leverage caching. We run a ~1.5mil page views / month site on heroku with just two (2!) dynos and koi. But our pages are cached for ~3 hours via varnish, which heroku provides for free. All users see (essentially) the same version of the site, barring JS-driven login/logout links, and certain admin functionality.
One thing you should keep in mind is that amazon RDS is mysql based and heroku runs postgres DBs. On Oct 7, 10:42 pm, mattsly <[email protected]> wrote: > I really want to pull the trigger with Heroku. I love so much of it. > I'm looking to move over a ~500K page views/month site that is > decently data intensive, and still weighing my options wrt database, > which may make or break my decision to use Heroku vs. EY, etc, given > the price differences. > > Koi seems like a great deal. 20 GB is plenty for my app. My > benchmarks so far seem promising. But "variable" performance has me > concerned a bit...does anyone have more concrete numbers on just what > that means? Anyone running decently high traffic sites on just Koi? > > The jump to Ronin is obviously dramatic in terms of price. Is there > any more info on just what a "compute unit" is? Like RAM and I/O > specs? It seems to me, given EC2 prices ("small ec2 is ~85/month > variable, and large = ~910/year term < $100/month), that there should > be a dedicated option for less than $200/month. Any hints of a Koi- > like price drop in the near future here? My 2 cents to Heroku's > pricing team would be treat the data layer as a break-even loss > leader, and make up the revenue on the dyno/worker side... > > Amazon RDS seems like quite possibly the way to go. 3 year term for a > small instance (1.7 GB) is $350 < 2 months of the cost of a Ronin > instance! Has anyone gone this route and had success? Should I be > worried about latency between Heroku and RDS? (it's all EC2, right?) > Which zone should I have a DB placed in? (Virginia vs. California?) > > m -- 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.
