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wisty on Aug 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heroku Isn't for Idiots

So Heroku is good for higher margin sites. You couldn't run Facebook, because the value of each customer is marginal, and they are expensive customers.

You could host a B2B app no problem, because they are paying (high margin) customers, and will probably not use too many resources.

dasil003 on Aug 31, 2012 [–]

No platform could run Facebook. There is a certain scale where you have to do it yourself because no one else has done it that way before.

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