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		bgentry on Oct 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Github: Major Service Outage They were already running their status site on Heroku prior to the last major service outage.

adgar2 on Oct 18, 2012 [–]

This is correct. They needed ~90 dynos to keep up with about 500 qps on their status page in the last outage.

Source: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=4524489

gojomo on Oct 18, 2012 | [–]

Should probably throw a Fastly or CloudFlare cache in front of a single dyno.

adgar2 on Oct 19, 2012 | | [–]

That would suggest people in charge know what they're doing.

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