On: Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup

[adrianh]

Ah, I should have mentioned this in the post. The price is going to end up being basically the same. I could have done it even cheaper, but I'm paying extra for multi-AZ stuff (i.e., making the database and load balancer available in multiple availability zones, for failover protection).

[masklinn → adrianh]

You should edit this in at the end.

edit: though you'd have to factor in the cost of bugging Scott when you're not his friend.

[earless1 → adrianh]

Be careful about the multi-AZ promise. One of the reasons we don't use RDS is because there is no multi-region failover/replication capability.