Multiple process types open to web traffic?

2014-03-25 Thread Robert Fletcher
We have a situation where we have traffic coming in from two sources. One is regular traffic from users, and another is data coming in from automated sources. We're running into a problem where there can occasionally be a flood of traffic from our automated endpoints that effectively DDOS's our ser

Re: Multiple process types open to web traffic?

2014-03-25 Thread Dave Perrett
If you can identify the automated traffic somehow by IP/UserAgent/etc, you could use https://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack to throttle it, letting regular traffic through unthrottled. It would refuse excess automated requests though, which may not be what you want (?). If you just want a dupl

Re: Multiple process types open to web traffic?

2014-03-25 Thread Robert Fletcher
Rack::Attack is an interesting idea. Right now we're deploying a separate heroku app, but I don't much like that solution both because the database might be the bottleneck, and it means we have to make sure two separate apps stay in sync. Ideally we'd be able to deploy to one instance and handle it

netzke search on virtual columns works in development but not in production on heroku

2014-03-25 Thread B Davison
Using ExtJs 4.2 Netzke Branch 0-9 I HOPE SOMEONE CAN ANSWER THIS -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://g

Re: netzke search on virtual columns works in development but not in production on heroku

2014-03-25 Thread B Davison
Using Postgresql in both environments, actually the same database Sorry forgot to mention that On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 2:31:56 PM UTC+11, B Davison wrote: > > > Using > ExtJs 4.2 > Netzke Branch 0-9 > > I HOPE SOMEONE CAN ANSWER THIS > -- -- You received this message because you are su