If your DB is the bottleneck you can use followers and octopus to allow your app to read from a different db than it writes to https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/distributing-reads-to-followers-with-octopusthis can help spread the load.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Robert Fletcher <[email protected]>wrote: > Rack::Attack is an interesting idea. Right now we're deploying a separate > heroku app, but I don't much like that solution both because the database > might be the bottleneck, and it means we have to make sure two separate > apps stay in sync. Ideally we'd be able to deploy to one instance and > handle it all. > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Dave Perrett <[email protected]>wrote: > >> If you can identify the automated traffic somehow by IP/UserAgent/etc, >> you could use https://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack to throttle it, >> letting regular traffic through unthrottled. It would refuse excess >> automated requests though, which may not be what you want (?). >> >> If you just want a duplicate copy of the app, you should be able to point >> both apps at the same database and run them in parallel, though this won't >> help if the DB is the bottleneck. >> >> dave >> >> >> On 26 March 2014 11:47, Robert Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We have a situation where we have traffic coming in from two sources. >>> One is regular traffic from users, and another is data coming in from >>> automated sources. We're running into a problem where there can >>> occasionally be a flood of traffic from our automated endpoints that >>> effectively DDOS's our servers. The solution we're thinking might be >>> effective would be if we could have our automated endpoints transmit their >>> data to a different url and have that be managed by a separate process on >>> our Heroku instance. Something like `endpoint.ourapp.com`. We're not as >>> concerned about responses being prompt on that side of things, though we >>> want our web side to remain responsive for our users. Is this possible, and >>> if so, how would we go about implementing it? Are there other alternatives >>> that might be more effective? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> - Robert >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Heroku" group. >>> >>> 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_US?hl=en >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Heroku Community" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Heroku" group. >> >> 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_US?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Heroku Community" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > > 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_US?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. 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_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
