Re: Koi (how variable is variable?) vs. Ronin (expensive!) vs. Amazon RDS (winner?)

2010-10-13 Thread Chap
They changed the database pricing in January and I thought they provided more specific details, but I guess they didn't: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/1/21/pricing_changes_part_i/ All my apps are running on blossom or koi db and I haven't had any issues with speed unless I'm doing

Re: Koi (how variable is variable?) vs. Ronin (expensive!) vs. Amazon RDS (winner?)

2010-10-12 Thread mattsly
Thanks Chris - that's great to know that you're handling that much traffic w/ only 2 dynos and Koi. I have highly cachable content as well, and plan on aggressively using varnish, as well as caches_page behind that, and then rendering user specific partials (welcome back username) w/ ajax (sounds

Koi (how variable is variable?) vs. Ronin (expensive!) vs. Amazon RDS (winner?)

2010-10-07 Thread mattsly
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