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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 gmadsen »

jaxn wrote: post #482
effingwewt wrote: post #464

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, young kids use google for nothing other than search, and they are getting off that too. I'm more and more hearing 'search' or 'look up' instead of 'google' as a verb. My kid's circles of friends consider email to be like snail mail/phone calls- nothing but spam. I warned them about g-products for years while they were growing up, but I needn't have worried- they see g/fb/insta/snap et al for the garbage it is. Mo…

Young people use google for YouTube more than anything else. When they search, it’s on YouTube.

I think that's a little too sweeping a generalization. There exist children who are capable of reading

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by mkrishnan »

Actually this is a good decision. Instead of squeezing paying customers to fund the free users, it's better to stop the free plan and offer better service to playing users. There are lots of free hosting plans now a days like every cloud vendor offers some kind of free plans.

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by Enlarged9135 »

jbirer wrote: post #513

It's really funny to see third world freeloaders seethe in the comments about this. Heroku is a great service that deserves the money, and it's not your ticket out of poverty by freelancing online. The free tier being removed means less Ukrainian / Indian spammers and bitcoin mining attempts, which means more resources for the paying quality clients. Thanks Heroku!

shut up comzoomer

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by echan00 »

bradgessler wrote: post #80
aarondf wrote: post #15

Fly.io has a dedicated process for moving off of Heroku. Auth via Heroku and they'll launch your app onto Fly. They also have a free tier. The process: https://fly.io/launch/heroku The docs: https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/speed-up-a-heroku-app I haven't used it [the Heroku -> Fly process] myself, but it's been around for quite some time!

Please let me know in the replies what you'd like to see at Fly that would make it as good, if not better, than Heroku. I recently started working at Fly to focus on making Rails & Ruby app deployments awesome, and of course Heroku set that benchmark almost a decade ago. I can't promise I'll get to everything, but I can promise that it will help me better prioritize what I should be focusing on to make Fly better for…

Having a horrendous time moving from Heroku to fly.io...

- After migrating my Heroku app to fly.io I also ran into an error that kept the app from booting: "Failed due to unhealthy allocations - no stable job version to auto revert". Its not clear what or how to diagnose this log error.

- I also tried to auth the cli and ran into an error that hangs all other applications requiring an internet connection on my MBP. I ended up hard restarting multiple times. The error is "Error Post 'https://api.fly.io/api/v1/cli_sessions': net/http: TLS handshake timeout"

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by LtdJorge »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #539
SomeCallMeTim wrote: post #465

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When I looked at Heroku pricing way back when, I immediately had a "WOW that's expensive" reaction. I look at it now, and...well, I'm all-in on k8s for most things, and cloud functions for most everything else, so I'm really not sure what the advantage of using Heroku would ever be if it they don't have a free plan. For free databases there are multiple options like CockroachDB and Supabase; throw up a $6/month dropl…

I agree that paid options of heroku hasn't been competitive for a long time. But removing the free, hobby tier suddenly makes hundreds of programming tutorials outdated which affects students and job seekers, I highly doubt that the students from obscure schools from around the world would be covered by the to-be announced education program and these are the groups who cannot spend any money. Fortunately there are gr…

Thanks for sharing

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by hisapo91 »

coffee_beqn wrote: post #39
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?

we're currently using early heroku dx as a gold standard while building a python cloud suite at abstracloud.com

(disclaimer: i work at abstra)

Re: Removal of Heroku free product plans

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Post by driverdan »

johndalton wrote: post #496
driverdan wrote: post #134

We'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…

(Disclaimer: I was at Heroku from Jan 2019 - July 2022, supporting Heroku Data products for most of that time. I have no special insight into this latest news beyond what's being reported publicly.) > We host a lot of individual apps, many that only need free tier DBs and Redis. I saw a lot of this, and while it's certainly not abuse it was - to my mind - a failure to turn Heroku's multi-tenant DB services into a rea…

I agree. I support paying for everything because everything has a cost. But I also think the amount I pay should reflect the cost it takes to run the service and the value I get out of it. We do not get $15/m in value out of the $15/m tier of redis for most of our apps. A multi-tenant solution that costs us something like $1/m per app would be much more reasonable.
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