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What frustrated me about Heroku nuking free projects was that the paid version was, IMO, too expensive. (Granted, I understand that the free tier was probably a money sink for them.) $5-10 a month is pocket change in some contexts, but for a hobby or a one-off project, it's a huge chunk of change. I really wish they offered a lower-cost tier.
What frustrated me about Heroku nuking free projects was that the paid version was, IMO, too expensive. (Granted, I understand that the free tier was probably a money sink for them.) $5-10 a month is pocket change in some contexts, but for a hobby or a one-off project, it's a huge chunk of change. I really wish they offered a lower-cost tier.
You can also go to any competitors, which have their smallest tier around the same price. Linode has a $5/m tier.
You could also buy a Raspberry Pi for $50 and run it in your closet.
Well, I moved everything I had to a VPS for the time being because I left it to the end. So I take this opportunity to ask, what alternatives have people moved to? I really haven't gone back to look what's out there. Not looking for free, just alternatives to review.
Well, I moved everything I had to a VPS for the time being because I left it to the end. So I take this opportunity to ask, what alternatives have people moved to? I really haven't gone back to look what's out there. Not looking for free, just alternatives to review.
Heroku is a shitshow after the Salesforce takeover and not to shit on you because I know it really sucks. BUT please everyone, do offsite backups and test them. Please people. Please. If you have anything that is important, BACK THEM UP on your own outside of the provider.
Heck, we wrote our own script to backup RDS databases offsite as well even though RDS has backups and restore options. I want that database file.
What frustrated me about Heroku nuking free projects was that the paid version was, IMO, too expensive. (Granted, I understand that the free tier was probably a money sink for them.) $5-10 a month is pocket change in some contexts, but for a hobby or a one-off project, it's a huge chunk of change. I really wish they offered a lower-cost tier.
Sure there are others out there that provide the same easy of use, I am just too lazy to switch ;)
OTOH I've never had them wipe a database on me, so I guess that would be the motivation to move on.
This whole debacle has been such short-term thinking from Salesforce. That after carrying these free projects for years they couldn't stomach more than 30d of data retention is just the icing on the cake. In my view this has caused yet further reputational harm for Heroku, and is going to have a long-term effect on the bottom line from paid projects. The value prop of Heroku has always been being able to sleep at nig…
I also assume Salesforce only bought them as a cash generator and has no interest in investing in it. So if they saved bottom line from this move, that's a win for them.
(Feel free to correct my assumptions if I'm very wrong)