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zampano on July 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Common problems with large file uploads

Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but why would timeout issues on large files affect something like Heroku more often than other types of hosting services?

re on July 19, 2012 [–]

Heroku enforces the timeout.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/request-timeout

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/s3#file_uploads

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7854239/heroku-timeout-wh...

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