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He's also optimized around his current setup and think that would carry over 1:1 to another platform. He has 24 unicorn workers now, so he thinks he needs 24 dynos on Heroku.

Whenever I've moved an app between platforms or server setups, I benchmark an individual instance and figure out your needs that way.

Also find it interesting how his current setup is all on a single server. So his entire service is one massive SPOF. On Heroku, he'd be highly available and horizontally scalable. How much does downtime cost him?



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