"I can assure you though that I know a little something about something, and I wasn't imagining problems."
Since you've made it clear in another thread that you were actually running out of RAM on your dynos, I imagine you were running into trouble. There's no need to be snide about it.
Bottom line: you hit an arbitrary limit in the platform. If heroku had high-memory dynos, the calculus would be different. In the future, instead of arguing that your homebrew system is better than "the cloud", you could just present the actual justification for your choice.
Since you've made it clear in another thread that you were actually running out of RAM on your dynos, I imagine you were running into trouble. There's no need to be snide about it.
Bottom line: you hit an arbitrary limit in the platform. If heroku had high-memory dynos, the calculus would be different. In the future, instead of arguing that your homebrew system is better than "the cloud", you could just present the actual justification for your choice.