Aneesh Neelam

@rahulkapoor90: Huh? What do you mean? The alternative is to manually keep track of every bit in a loop.

Digital Ocean is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service, a full-fledged hosting provider. Heroku is a Platform-as-a-Service. A PaaS would greatly reduce our efforts in maintenance and configuration. I do understand a PaaS is...

Yes, I'm aware of that. I checked it out when we got free $100 platform credit for Digital Ocean with the [GitHub Student Developer Pack](https://education.github.com/pack). But why is it necessary?

@aashrairavooru: Regarding Node.js on Heroku, please refer #21, the second post. We would need a load balancer with multiple application instances for scaling, exactly what the Heroku dynos and the...

@aashrairavooru: Its not about it being easy. You can host a Node.js application using a number of providers, documented [here](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/node-hosting). I am aware of a number of them. We're hosting...

@aashrairavooru: You faced a crash in [vitacademics-rel](http://vitacademics-rel.herokuapp.com/)? You will get a 503 error if the connection to VIT's website times out. IaaS providers like Digital Ocean usually do not have...

We have to move to Digital Ocean, MongoLab's datalimits are being a massive pain in the ass.

@karthikb351 already has an instance on Digital Ocean. Moving everything to that will take a couple of hours, that's it. And then the client apps will need to update the...

Oh no, it's @karthikb351. Expect a week. :-P @biocross: Push your update, no rush.

Multiple MongoDB databases is making the entire backend very unstable. Atleast shift the database to DigitalOcean.