performance expectations for 1 dyno 'blossom'?

2009-06-28 Thread Paul Gallagher
I've recently deployed a couple of applications to heroku but have been a little underwhelmed at the performance on 1 dyno/Blossom 1. Unfortunately I don't have numbers, but I have a feeling that performance has been much better in the past. Again, without real numbers yet - I just did a simple

Re: performance expectations for 1 dyno 'blossom'?

2009-06-28 Thread Oren Teich
is current performance (i.e. the past few days) unusual/ are there issues being actively resolved? is performance recognised as an issue/ are there plans to do anything about it? what have other's experiences been like? (network is a factor for me since I'm based in Singapore, but not when

Re: Can't use CNAME and MX records together

2009-06-28 Thread Paul Gallagher
This issue bit me recently since my dns provider (whois.com) just started to enforce no mixing of CNAME and MX records. The problem I'm having is that I can't figure out a way around this where: (a) both your web services and mail services are hosted (by separate providers), and (b) you want to

Re: performance expectations for 1 dyno 'blossom'?

2009-06-28 Thread Paul Gallagher
Thanks for the suggestions Oren, I'll do some more monitoring. Haven't used newrelic before, but heard good things about it. Seems like a good chance to check it out;-) On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Oren Teich o...@teich.net wrote: is current performance (i.e. the past few days) unusual/

Re: performance expectations for 1 dyno 'blossom'?

2009-06-28 Thread Carl Anderson
I'll second newrelic's RPM. They had a free week long trial for the best package (gold, IIRC) a while back and it was pretty impressive. The free package is okay, and you can see enough to be reasonably useful, but there is a lot missing from the higher level packages. Carl On Sun, Jun 28, 2009

Re: Can't use CNAME and MX records together

2009-06-28 Thread Paul Gallagher
Hi Matthew, Not sure about GoDaddy, but I just discovered a work-around for whois... the order of setting up MX and CNAME is significant;-) So for whois.com: 1. Setup MX records first parasite.com. MX aspmx.l.google.com. (etc - all the 7 MX addresses for google) 2. Then setup CNAME