Heroku Beta Pricing
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Re: Heroku Beta Pricing
#12I tried to post this yesterday[0] and fell off the new stories list, but such is HN. Basically, they're nerfing their free tier by charging $7/month for a 24/7 running app. People wanting to run a free app may look at App Engine or AWS's one year free tier, or compare the price among other "cloud" and cloud-ish services. [0] http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881
Well, that just nuked my blog, and also my company's hubot. Ah well, guess I'll need to properly support that hubot now.
It's probably worth it for your company to pay the $84/yr rather than have you go through hoops to move Hubot somewhere else.
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#13Link doesn't work for me. From another source I found: Free – Experiment in your own dev or demo app with a web and a worker dyno for free. Sleeps after 1 hr of inactivity. Active up to 12 hours a day. No custom domains. 512 MB RAM. Hobby – Run a small app 24×7 with the Heroku developer experience for $7/dyno/mo. Custom domains. Run a maximum of one dyno per Procfile entry. 512 MB RAM. Standard 1X, 2X: Build producti…
So, it seems that the change for production apps is that you can now somehow commit to a monthly price for dynos and get a discount. 1X – $25/month compared to $36.5/month (by the hour). 2X – $50/month compared to $73/month (by the hour). PX – $500/month compared to $584/month (by the hour).
Except all projects, including production ones currently get the first dyno free. So my 1x$0 + 2x$36 now becomes 3x$25.
Re: Heroku Beta Pricing
#14Link doesn't work for me. From another source I found: Free – Experiment in your own dev or demo app with a web and a worker dyno for free. Sleeps after 1 hr of inactivity. Active up to 12 hours a day. No custom domains. 512 MB RAM. Hobby – Run a small app 24×7 with the Heroku developer experience for $7/dyno/mo. Custom domains. Run a maximum of one dyno per Procfile entry. 512 MB RAM. Standard 1X, 2X: Build producti…
Did the free-tier just drop from 750 to ~350 dyno-hours/month? Does no custom domains mean no DNS redirects?
https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/billing
edit: I read TFL, no more free tier with a cron job hitting it hourly to keep it awake 24/7. Can't say I'm surprised.
Re: Heroku Beta Pricing
#15Can't see it unless I login. Anyone care to post some details here?
You can't see it when you login either, think this is for select beta testers.
Re: Heroku Beta Pricing
#16I tried to post this yesterday[0] and fell off the new stories list, but such is HN. Basically, they're nerfing their free tier by charging $7/month for a 24/7 running app. People wanting to run a free app may look at App Engine or AWS's one year free tier, or compare the price among other "cloud" and cloud-ish services. [0] http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881
also Openshift.
But clearly, unlimited "limited" Free cloud hosting will be over in a few years.
hobbyist devs and students really need to prepare for this.
Re: Heroku Beta Pricing
#17Link doesn't work for me. From another source I found: Free – Experiment in your own dev or demo app with a web and a worker dyno for free. Sleeps after 1 hr of inactivity. Active up to 12 hours a day. No custom domains. 512 MB RAM. Hobby – Run a small app 24×7 with the Heroku developer experience for $7/dyno/mo. Custom domains. Run a maximum of one dyno per Procfile entry. 512 MB RAM. Standard 1X, 2X: Build producti…
It's probably worth nothing that these prices were part of a private beta, may or may not actually be the final prices.
Re: Heroku Beta Pricing
#18I tried to post this yesterday[0] and fell off the new stories list, but such is HN. Basically, they're nerfing their free tier by charging $7/month for a 24/7 running app. People wanting to run a free app may look at App Engine or AWS's one year free tier, or compare the price among other "cloud" and cloud-ish services. [0] http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881
Well, that just nuked my blog, and also my company's hubot. Ah well, guess I'll need to properly support that hubot now.
I run my companies hubot on a $5 a month Digital Ocean instance. It's also far easier than using Heroku because it's just a regular linux server and not a managed/restricted instance.
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#19I wonder if they will also change the pricing of the database tiers. Since paying 25$ for an 1x dyno and paying 50$ for a database just seems to be out of wack.
Re: Heroku Beta Pricing
#20I understand why they're doing this - companies have to make money - I get that.
I'm still annoyed with Heroku though. Cachet (https://cachethq.io) supports the "Deploy to Heroku" button. My experience is that their support is terrible. I've contacted them several times via; Twitter, email, GitHub and had no support from them in regards to this bloody button.
The reason I support Heroku in the first place is because of the free tier. It makes deploying your own instance of Cachet much easier. However, we've been having issues supporting it with Laravel 5's environment configuration anyway, so this is the last drop in the bucket before I pull native Heroku support.
Our demo (https://demo.cachethq.io) and our own status page (https://status.cachethq.io) are both hosted on Heroku with the "Auto Deploy" function, but only because it's "easy" to do.