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		cubicle67 on May 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about re... at least Heroku are pretty upfront about what a dyno is http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos (linked from http://www.heroku.com/pricing#1-0)

armored on May 3, 2011 [–]

Yeah but that doesn't really tell you anything about the underlying hardware. Your performance will vary depending on which nodes your dyno is running on. Hardware abstraction is a great thing, I just think that a little more transparency is in order.

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