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Wow, this has blown up a bit, so I have added few more servers (now two servers on the West coast and two in Europe), but ultimately I think there is a limit cap of 100 Titanoboa instances in each geography in parallel.

So if we break that level please don't be mad if you don't get your instance :)

Instead give me a star on github and come back later :)

Cheers Miro

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Ok, I have just reached 100 concurrent containers in Europe, which is max at this stage and I don't think I can change the aws limit on the fly (will check though) so I might start killing the oldest instances.

Apologies for inconvenience folks, but I am sure people rarely play with each instance for the whole 3 hours anyway at this stage.

Honestly did not expect this kind of "public beta" rollout, still surprised how well the service holds so far under the load.

Approaching 100 containers cap in US, so if something does not work, dont be mad :)

If anybody's curious about this "public beta hosting - HN bear hug" performance load test:

I just (sequentially) restarted all 4 servers behind my 2 load balancers - seems that by reaching 100 containers in each geography the provisioning threads may have died after many (unsuccessful) retries, so need to restart the thread pools.

That is one more error I need to handle (or increasing my limit in AWS).

Heya - just a note that I build these kinds of PaaS platforms for a living - if you need a hand building a super-massive cluster for lots of users, let me know!

Wishing you success, fellow Miro.

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