Upcoming Service Disruption

[Gwyrdain]

As of yesterday, AW on Heroku has exceeded our 10k database line limit. After approx. Monday, 29-Aug the db will reject new additions unless we upgrade. What's the bottom line? AW will have to be off-line for some period of time during the next week (TBD) to do the upgrade. The db should migrate without problems, but who knows -- so... be prepared? More to come.

[Cordir]

Would deleting areas help in the short term? I didn't know there was size limit, and I uploaded a new version of a REALLY big zone. I can absolutely yank some stuff down.
Also, can I please help defray costs involved in the upgrade?

[Cordir]

(I just deleted a bunch of stuff.)

[lpkirby]

If you're having to pay for this it looks like Heroku gets expensive really fast. Have you looked into other hosting providers?

When I was an FLI my sites and forums were on a service from railsplayground.com, but it looks like they haven't really update much since then. Their software seems a bit out of date.

More recently I've used bluehost.com. They seem to be much cheaper than Heroku and support ruby on rails. I like them when I was using them.

Be aware, I haven't used either of these in at least 3 years so your experience may vary. That being said, it may be worth shopping around. Heroku seems too expensive.

[Gwyrdain]

Rows were reduced from ~11.2k to ~7.2k, so immediate action is no longer required. The db upgrade is only $9/mo and Heroku is easy, so I'm inclined to stick with it... but we can look at other options.