I searched and found similar questions to mine, so I can probably infer the answer, but I want to make sure before I leap.
Let's pretend I have 4 clients with pretty elaborate Rails or Django apps. They are currently on a traditional shared server that we host, along with about 150 small sites, and the performance of these 4 clients sites is unacceptable. So, for the sake of performance and our sanity we are considering moving these 4 apps to Heroku (another option we are considering is spinning up our own EC2 instances). Now let's pretend I want, oh, 3 web dynos for each app. And each app will have it's own database. Would I have a single account, where I set up 12 dynos, and a single dedicated database that is shared among all apps? Or would I set up 4 accounts, each with its 3 dynos and a database? >From what I have read, I believe it would be the case that I would set up a single account with however many dynos I think I would need and it would be shared among as many apps as I wish to deploy, and the first dyno for each app would be free (not just the first dyno for the account). Is this correct? Let's get a little less abstract for a moment... Client A - Small-ish database (about 40 tables, none of them with more than 100 or so records), a fair amount of static content, and perhaps 1000 hits a day. Client B - Almost identical to Client A Client C - Medium-sized database (about 20 tables with about 1500 records each, fairly high traffic), lots of static content (thousands of images) Client D - Very dynamic, mostly user-generated content, lots of static content (uploaded images, PDFs, etc.) Given this type of configuration, I believe I read that I can basically give Heroku a dyno budget, it it will use what it needs to for each client, as it needs to, though I can also tell it how I would prefer those dynos is distributed. Is that correct? Finally, it is my understanding that if dynos aren't being used, they are killed off, so we won't get charged for 12 dynos just because we had a 12 dyno budget. Heroku will use what is needed when needed, so costs could be less than budgeted. Correct? Sorry for all of the questions. The boss-man is asking me to make a pretty important decision here, so I want to make sure I have the facts straight. Thanks in advance for your help. Joe K. -- 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.
