Interesting to see that www.heroku.com runs on their own platform, and is just as susceptible to platform downtime.
On the other hand its surprising to me that when heroku goes down, it goes down hard, namely that all hosted sites including their own are unavailable.
Totally agree with this assessment. I don't know how their routing mesh works exactly, but it seems that they're coupled too closely. Either everybody is mostly working fine, or everybody's down.
On the other hand its surprising to me that when heroku goes down, it goes down hard, namely that all hosted sites including their own are unavailable.