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Sorry everybody! We hit our Heroku database limit unexpectedly. We're hesitant to upgrade while our initial launch traffic hits so are maintaining the site manually. Sites hosted on Forge are elsewhere and performing just fine.


That seems to be a bit short sighted to me. You're turning off potential users because your site is down and you have an easy fix for the problem? Seems like a bad strategy to me...


I'm torn between upvoting this for visibility and downvoting it for being dumb.


You can go ahead and downvote it since it's all fixed now. Worse yet, the migration ended up only taking two minutes, so downvote this one while you're at it.


Ouch. I've been on the receiving end of Heroku outages during heavy traffic, it's zero craic. But it happens.

Give the guys a break lads, it's hard to anticipate this. Still, maybe hosting the static front page on... err.. S3 might've kept it up ;)

-Edited for end of day stupidity-


So you were running on the starter databases? Slick.




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