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Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by jagthedrummer »

smackfu wrote: post #45
jagthedrummer wrote: post #44

Here's an analysis of how these rumored changes will affect apps of various sizes. http://www.octolabs.com/blogs/octoblog/2015/03/31/analysis-o... tl;dr : Current paying customers will see a discount of up to 30%. Current freeloaders will have to pay $84/year for functionality equivalent to what they get now. Anyone who is technical enough to use Heroku effectively can charge AT LEAST $84/hour for their time, meaning…

The beauty of using your own time is that no money has to change hands, no matter how valuable it is.

Sure, no money has to change hands, BUT if you decided to take the hours that you would spend moving projects away from Heroku, and instead do something productive that creates value for a client you could be spending the same amount of effort, and be making more money than you'll save by switching.

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by jhkjkhljh »

practicalpants wrote: post #32

If Heroku actually does make the free tier unusable (12 hours a day availability), and if custom domains aren't free anymore... then Heroku, time to part ways, and no more referrals to others. This is the reason I chose Heroku as my platform in the first place over competitors, and if my experience is common, it worked out well for them because I have paid for premium tiers on certain apps along the way, and spoke gl…

Light-traffic personal apps will probably be just fine with 350 hours per month

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Post by baudtack »

jk5_ wrote: post #36

So, as a fellow hobbyist with 12 free dynos running on Heroku with custom domains, I clearly don't want to pay $84 a month for apps that aren't meant to generate revenue. It is a sad day. Where are you moving your side projects? EDIT: I'm asking since I have no idea where I should go next. Heroku was a blessing.

I'm not sure what you're doing exactly but I'm a member of hcoop and highly recommend joining. It kind of depends on what your use case is though. I'm not vary familiar with heroku so not sure what a dyno is.

http://hcoop.net/

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by moe »

sleepyhead wrote: post #38
jvanbaarsen wrote: post #19

I 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.

The database pricing looks pretty much like before. What is problematic about paying $50 for a database that you don't have to manage, has continous backups, dataclips, and ability to easily scale and set up replication for? How much would a db admin charge you per hour to do the same?

How much would a db admin charge you per hour to do the same?

I think that's the wrong question.

A better question would be why you don't just rent a $50 dedicated server and run everything, including the database, on that.

If you think you need a "db admin" to do that then you should really re-evaluate your team.

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by tortilla »

imdsm wrote: post #33
practicalpants wrote: post #32

If Heroku actually does make the free tier unusable (12 hours a day availability), and if custom domains aren't free anymore... then Heroku, time to part ways, and no more referrals to others. This is the reason I chose Heroku as my platform in the first place over competitors, and if my experience is common, it worked out well for them because I have paid for premium tiers on certain apps along the way, and spoke gl…

Most likely they will argue that you can use it 24 hours a day, just that they will cut the 750 free hours in half. Does that mean you'll pay $7 a month or $3.50 a month for a 24/7 dyno? I agree with you though, they might think they're kicking out X freeloaders, but how many of those freeloaders have production apps and how many of them are in decision making positions? If I have to leave, I'll move /everything/.

I was a freeloader for 5 or 6 low traffic sites. But now I have a production-grade app at over $700 a month.

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by flurdy »

jk5_ wrote: post #36

So, as a fellow hobbyist with 12 free dynos running on Heroku with custom domains, I clearly don't want to pay $84 a month for apps that aren't meant to generate revenue. It is a sad day. Where are you moving your side projects? EDIT: I'm asking since I have no idea where I should go next. Heroku was a blessing.

Note, these are not the final prices. Its only part of private beta or AB testing of possible prices.

Also the cost of your existing dynos may not change if they grandfather and not change running dynos' prices. Who knows until they actually announce any price changes.

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by ochoseis »

untog wrote: post #40
jk5_ wrote: post #36

So, as a fellow hobbyist with 12 free dynos running on Heroku with custom domains, I clearly don't want to pay $84 a month for apps that aren't meant to generate revenue. It is a sad day. Where are you moving your side projects? EDIT: I'm asking since I have no idea where I should go next. Heroku was a blessing.

Digital Ocean has a $5/month tier that has worked great for me.

That plus Dokku could make for a nice Heroku clone/replacement. Was a bit buggy when I tried it a year ago, but the main dev has been sponsored by Deis to support the project for about a day a week now, so I'm guessing it's still going strong.

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by ekidd »

I totally support Heroku's right to charge whatever they want, of course. They're expensive, but they provide good value for the money.

Historically, I have a bunch of personal free-tier apps which sleep most of the time, and a couple which are up most of the time. My consulting clients, on the other hand, have paid Heroku thousands of dollars per month at various points. I also maintain a buildpack.

But at this point, it's time I get off my backside, set up a docker host on EC2, and containerize the stuff I care about. I can probably pack everything onto a pretty small instance, and I've been meaning to deploy some non-HTTP services. Besides, it's closer to what I'm using in production.

Thank you, Heroku, for some very enjoyable years, for top-notch paid service, and for the free hosting!

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