Elevated Error rates in Heroku

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by mparramon • 12 years ago

10 7 12 years ago

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opendais2• 12 years ago

Does anyone else feel like Heroku's error rates on top of its higher costs makes Heroku badly overpriced?

It would be one thing if it was running on like a 10-20% premium but its premium is much, much higher. Or if its rare of errors was much lower.

fat0wl2• 12 years ago

i've been kinda slaggin them off forever on this. they pretty much make money off how inefficient RoR is plus a bunch of vendor lock-in. I switched to Java and work for enterprise now so we have our own servers but for the next hobby project I doubt it'll be on Heroku.

The thing that pisses me off most is that Heroku's policies on error/performance/updates are shaky, but their add-on makers (who are charging HIGH premiums) are far worse.

I've had such a shoddy experience with WebSolr for example. Every few months all their stuff breaks, then when you follow their instructions to spin your instance back up you find that the client API or instance type you use is no longer supported and have to debate which parts of your codebase to upgrade just to get back to where you started.

That's why I think the Heroku ecosystem is trash -- after 1-2 years of forced upgrades and code refactoring you get so tired of it. "Oh another email saying if I don't change ___ in 6 months my app will die." "Another slew of unexplained errors followed by Googling eventually leading to 1 tweet about how this add-ons service is temporarily fked". Seriously, just learn Java or some hipper JVM lang and spin up a Tomcat or Glassfish container somewhere, then connect to 3rd party services directly rather than through an extra "add-on" layer that supposedly provides convenience by forcing you to jump through one more hoop. Most of the add-on companies seem to have non-Heroku offerings that are much more flexible to integrate.

opendais2• 12 years ago

I don't really blame the add-on Makers since they have to pay Heroku's markup and then their own.

flyingbeaver• 12 years ago

It's getting worse and worse... And their uptime is way worse than what they show. Today for example they started tracking outage almost 20 minutes after it started...

fizx• 12 years ago

EC2 itself is having some network issues.

darkr• 12 years ago

eu-west-1 had some network connectivity issues earlier on that are now thankfully resolved. We were seeing particular issues with instances that were behind ELBs that had x-zone balancing enabled (only to instances in eu-west-1b).

Elevated Error rates in Heroku

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