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Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by imdsm »

metasean wrote: post #72
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…

I have multiple smallish projects that don't need to be up 24/7, but that may evolve into something more. I'm not going to pay $84/year per project to keep them on Heroku. So, I'll end up moving them, and as they evolve, they'll evolve on the other platform.

Exactly. We're not going to pay for something that might never take off, but we if they do, it'd be nice to be able to keep them where they are. Isn't this how Heroku got to where it is?

Seems everyone grows so big that they turn their backs on where they came from. They're no longer Heroku from the block.

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by mark_l_watson »

aikah wrote: post #89
mark_l_watson wrote: post #53

IBM is trying to build their hosting business. They offer a really generous free monthly tier on BlueMix. You can run a web app with a small data store for free.

no, it's 375hours/month just like the new free heroku plan.

Actually, BlueMix gives you 375 hours of 1 gigabyte units. If your web app is configured to use 0.5 gigs of RAM, then you get 2 * 375 hours free per month. I was running a node web app with a data store using a combined 0.25 gig units, so running that 24/7 would only use up half of the free monthly tier.

IBM is trying to buy there way into the market.

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by jacques_chester »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #53

IBM is trying to build their hosting business. They offer a really generous free monthly tier on BlueMix. You can run a web app with a small data store for free.

And BlueMix is based on Cloud Foundry, meaning that if you avoid using IBM's services, you can easily relocate to another public PaaS provider.

I'd recommend Pivotal Web Services over BlueMix, but that's only because I work for Pivotal.

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by mod »

baudtack wrote: post #54
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/

Ex-hcooper here! My late friend "Nion" introduced me.

I had a good experience there, but it's a lot different from Heroku. There's no paid support or anything.

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by vgabios »

lucisferre wrote: post #29
erjiang wrote: post #8

I 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

While it doesn't seem certain any price change has happened. A drop in pricing has been way overdue, the cost of computing power and memory has been dropping but not Heroku pricing. I get that Heroku is meant to be a "premium" cloud product, but it often doesn't feel like one. This also may not be much of a drop for people with minimal production requirements. Under the free hours system, 2x1X was $35 now it may be $…

GAE lost a lot of users in their price hike a few years back, so on the mid/higher end it makes sense. But, hiking on the low end may "save some headaches" but it puts off potentially moneyed ventures "with the bathwater" in a "no public restrooms" way. (Such "signs" are mostly pointless and just make the "shop" look discriminatory.)

Re: Heroku Beta Pricing

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Post by frednews »

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.

what about openshift?

https://www.openshift.com/products/pricing/plan-comparison

https://blog.openshift.com/heroku-ruby-app-migration/

ps : I dont work for them

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