Removal of Heroku free product plans
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Removal of Heroku free product plans
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Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#2Transparency on direction.
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#3> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users.
Sad to see this, but not surprised after the Salesforce purchase. Heroku was a great place for hobbyists and tiny one-off projects. What's a good alternative?
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#4Pretty frustrated by this. I run a UAT instance on heroku free which I will now need to start paying for effectively doubling my cloud cost. Think i will migrate to fly.io instead which I guess is what they want to happen
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#5> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users. Sad to see this, but not surprised after the Salesforce purchase…
fly.io i think - never tried it but HN feedback has been pretty positive on it
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#6> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year.
Inactive for over a year? That's really interesting, because I was a paid Heroku customer for multiple years, but am no longer. I don't even have resources running, but I do have a few apps sitting in the dashboard. I guess I'm fair game for culling, despite being a paid customer in the past and not taking up very many resources.
> Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services.
I understand this from a business perspective, but wow this sucks. There's a lot of projects hosted on Heroku that are just SPA-like demos of OSS tools -- things like theme demos for static site generators and the like. Sure, these are all good candidates for the myriad of other hosts that exist, but I'm sure that a lot will go down and linkrot will creep into the OSS ecosystem. Not a lot of people are eager to migrate projects off on someone else's schedule.
I wish Salesforce the best of luck with Heroku, but this sounds like a "we care about the numbers" move. I hope this means that they actually invest in their product.
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#7> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users. Sad to see this, but not surprised after the Salesforce purchase…
fly.io i think - never tried it but HN feedback has been pretty positive on it
I've tried it for a small project. It's about as easy to use as Heroku.
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#8> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users. Sad to see this, but not surprised after the Salesforce purchase…
Haven’t tried them out yet, but railway.app looks promising. Same for fly.io
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#9> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users. Sad to see this, but not surprised after the Salesforce purchase…
fly.io i think - never tried it but HN feedback has been pretty positive on it
I have tried it and found it to be really really good. It's a little more DIY than Heroku, but not by too much. They are moving really fast too, hiring people to focus on specific use cases (Laravel, Rails, etc.)
If you're making heavy use of Heroku addons, you'll probably miss that quite a bit.
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#10> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users. Sad to see this, but not surprised after the Salesforce purchase…
I can't believe they are killing the free tier? :o
What a drastic change in strategy !