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Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits

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Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits

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Post by jordanthoms »

dangero wrote: post #38
hayksaakian wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, they only spin down people on the free tier, where you can't save over $0.

Is this documented somewhere? Are you sure? How can you tell that you actually have 3 dynos running when you're paying for 3? I suspect that if you pay for at least 2 dynos what happens is that they keep at least one dyno running and scale up to 3 as needed because as a customer I can't really tell the difference between 1 and 3 dynos unless my traffic requires all 3 at which point the service would have already scal…

Dyno idling is documented, and it only happens to web dynos, when there is only one running. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-sleeping

I can say from experience they definitely do not scale down the dynos you are paying for - you still see log entries from them and they are immediately available to requests.

Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits

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Post by dangero »

jordanthoms wrote: post #44
dangero wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this documented somewhere? Are you sure? How can you tell that you actually have 3 dynos running when you're paying for 3? I suspect that if you pay for at least 2 dynos what happens is that they keep at least one dyno running and scale up to 3 as needed because as a customer I can't really tell the difference between 1 and 3 dynos unless my traffic requires all 3 at which point the service would have already scal…

Dyno idling is documented, and it only happens to web dynos, when there is only one running. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-sleeping I can say from experience they definitely do not scale down the dynos you are paying for - you still see log entries from them and they are immediately available to requests.

Oh interesting. I was wrong.

Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits

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Post by hijackson »

nmcfarl wrote: post #20
the_bear wrote: post #4

This is awesome. Aside from the fact that my bill will be cut in half, I hate plans. Plans are just one more thing to monitor (make sure you don't go over your totally arbitrary limit!), and they generally lead to weird inequity. For example, I've been adding ~75 people per day to my MailChimp list and the price stayed the same. Then one day it went from $75 to $150. Adding thousands of subscribers was completely fre…

This is probably a nature of how the MailChimp plans are constructed. I know that the Zencoder plans get cheaper when you level up to the next one (and it’s worth while switching before you hit the minimum included minutes.) Plans can be done right - that is in a customer friendly fashion while still maintaining reoccurring revenue for the service.

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Re: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits

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Post by lubomir »

twakefield wrote: post #2

Our most popular feedback to date is to eliminate minimums and get rid of feature gating in plans. So, here you go. As always, open to feedback.

Just a quick note: your pricing calculator does not let me enter any number. I use Czech keyboard layout where numbers are typed with Shift key. This happens in both Firefox and Chrome. Once I switch to English layout, it works fine.
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