For folks looking for a free Postgres offering, check out bit.io (I'm the founder/CEO) - we're super easy to use. And if you migrate from heroku and mention HN we'll get you a $5 credit if you go pro.
Removal of Heroku free product plans
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Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#302Heroku was a cornerstone of my toolbox back in 2015 but these days I wouldn't use them. They have been stained by Salesforce. It's unfortunate. :(
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#303We're a large Heroku user currently spending $10-20k/month. This change may lead us to switching to another platform. We host a lot of individual apps, many that only need free tier DBs and Redis. This change will roughly double the cost of a basic app on pro dynos + DB + redis, from $25/m to $49/m, with no additional benefit. Heroku is already very expensive. $25/m for 512MB RAM is laughable. At $49/m we could get a…
If you'd like something that gives you way more control and flexibility, yet is similarly easy to use, try https://stacktape.com
Also, the Stacktape pricing works way better for companies spending $10-20k/month on infrastructure. With Stacktape, you pay a single monthly fee for the "deployment simplicity" (+AWS fees, which are in general way below PaaS providers). You're not paying the "deployment simplicity fee" for every running instance.
Dislcaimer: I'm a founder at Stacktape.
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is Heroku stuck in a death spiral? Source needed?
All it would take is a quick google... Heroku stock price is down roughly %50 from less than a year ago. Death spiral? I don't know. But slashing costs is certainly not indicative of Heroku having a super awesome fun time.
all tech cos are down 50% from a year ago
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#305Check out https://www.cloud66.com/ you can run your applications on all major cloud providers including bare metal + native support for MySQL, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, MemcachD + handy features to deploy and manage your apps and team.
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#306> 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 c…
I haven't used Heroku in a while, but don't they rely on git? You shouldn't be losing anything specific to re-deploying your service. Otherwise, they have no obligation to maintain/run anything that isn't being paid for.
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
What alternative platforms would you consider moving to that have the same features you use/need?
Fly, Render, or (blah) straight AWS. If I was starting from scratch, I'd go all in on Next + Vercel.
Why not bare metal servers or VPS from like... DigitalOcean? What is DigitalOcean missing for your use case/preference specifically compared to Next + Vercel?
I'm not a DigitalOcean shill or employee, I'm just curious what I'm missing from a "what do other competitors out there offer".
I always thought it was like... spinup Debian/Ubuntu VPS, ssh to it, install Docker, run docker-compose or Docker Swarm or... Terraform?
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#308Will there be any way to easily download or back up existing apps and their data stores? Something like Google Take Out. Otherwise I'm going to have a lot of apps to go through and see if there's anything important in before this date...
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#309> Open source programs: If you are a maintainer on an open-source project, and would like to request Heroku support for your project, contact the Salesforce Open Source Program office at ospo-heroku-credits@salesforce.com.
Both the text version of this email (ospo-heroku-credits@salesforce.com) and the mailto it actually links (ospo@salesforce.com) appear to be invalid.
I tried both and got:
> We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact ($GROUP) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group.
Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans
#310I just got a JavaScript game working on a heroku instance recently, and it looks like I'll be hunting down another hosting option. Sucks, but it happens sometimes.