They have an "addon" called a dyno for $35 p/month that stops the idling. He didn't choose that one.
He has purchased other addons and is complaining he isn't getting the benefit from this one. Of course not.
He has purchased other addons and is complaining he isn't getting the benefit from this one. Of course not.
Yes, you are paying for a bunch of other services; but, well, those services aren't the actual web dyno that processes the actual request.
Perhaps they could phrase their offerings better, but my impression was that the 1 free dyno with idling is intended for development and testing, not for production use. Once you actually need to use it in production, you need to pay for a dyno.
So now I have 3 dynos (2 production, one staging) for $35/month, I can scale up or down at will, deployment is dirt simple, and I don't have to do the sysadmin crap myself.
It's an extreme bargain, IMO.
Now if the project takes off to the point where I need dozens of dynos all the time, that will be different, but ideally in that case I could hire a sysadmin. :-)