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Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by shafyy »

iends wrote: post #11
cmg wrote: post #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…

Haven't used them personally, but https://render.com/ has been highly recommended here.

I have just recently deployed a small Rails project on Render and I really like it so far. Good docs, great UI.

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

iends wrote: post #11
cmg wrote: post #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…

Haven't used them personally, but https://render.com/ has been highly recommended here.

Render is great but doesn’t offer a long-term usable free tier for database-backed projects.

However, if you’re looking to move a project that costs you money off Heroku, you’re likely to be quite happy with the price-performance ratio that Render offers. I certainly am.

https://render.com/docs/migrate-from-heroku

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by nikodunk »

craigkerstiens wrote: post #17

This is a sad day. Pricing changes are always hard, and having been through some of the earlier pricing changes at Heroku you can't make everyone happy. But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps. Without it I'm confident we'd have less developers in the world. It is still one of the gold standards for developer experience. Years after its heyday companies and to…

As someone who made their first ever deploy on free Heroku, and realized server-software development was a doable and not expensive thing, this is a sad day indeed. Maybe online tutorials will use alternatives to Heroku, or maybe they'll suggest self-hosting your website in the future? Time will tell. End of a (web development) era for sure.

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by Thaxll »

"The priority going forward is to support customers of all sizes who are betting projects, careers, and businesses on Heroku"

Who in 2022 is actually using Heroku at serious scale? This is a dying service, no one sane want to bet on that.

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by krthr »

cmg wrote: post #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…

GCP Cloud Run

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by eropple »

Huh. I can't say I'm not a little conflicted on this one. I ran a consultancy in the 2010s peeling sites off of Heroku and onto AWS, so seeing this feels pretty weird to me. As 'craigkierstiens says elsewhere in the thread, it feels a lot like the writing is on the wall. End-of-an-era stuff.

Mild plug: these days I'm in devrel at Render now, because I think a modern, thought-out PaaS can target most folks' needs. If you're on Heroku and looking for somewhere to jump to, feel free to email me directly (ed@render.com). Happy to chat informally, to give you a non-sales assessment of whether Render fits your needs, and to help where I can--whether it's Render or to point you somewhere else.

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by coffee_beqn »

joshstrange wrote: post #26

So their next chapter is obscurity followed by shutting down? It was clear even before their horribly bungled GitHub security incident that Heroku was on life support at best and it's been a long time since "Heroku" was the answer to "What PaaS should I use?". The beancounters took control a while back and are sucking all they can out of it before they discard it's empty shell. Having Heroku as your PaaS provider see…

What is the PaaS people use today? Just big cloud is too powerful or are there still niche companies that make life easy for startups like Heroku used to?

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by bobx11 »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #21

Well damn. 3 months to figure out what to do with all my 'hobby' apps eh. Hm.

Because Salesforce has been internally talking about killing off heroku for quite some time, I've been trying alternatives and found many (eg. DigitalOcean, Render) support buildpacks already, so should be a very easy transition.
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