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Heroku 2X Dynos: Resize your dynos with twice the resources (private beta)

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From the bottom of the email Heroku sent out about this feature:

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CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:

All information provided through the Heroku beta program is confidential, and should be treated as such until publicly announced by Heroku.

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Came here to say this -- I got that email too.

Seriously, what a dick move.

Sorry -- didn't notice that (it's on Heroku's public website).

Which I would say qualifies as "publicly announced." Could be that this email has actually been floating around a little until now.

It was sent literally a couple hours ago. Also: "This article is a work in progress, or documents a feature that is not yet released to all users. This article is unlisted. Only those with the link can access it."

"Only those with the link can access it" seems to show a basic misunderstanding about how the web works...

Good idea.

That said, I think Heroku is leaving some money on the table by not offering a 1 Dino paid for plan, the only difference being that it would not get unloaded if no requests were received for a while. Nothing serious can be run on a 1 Dino free plan (and maybe that is by design) because of the loading request times after an app,is unloaded. I have several small projects that I would run on a $15-$20/month plan.

Actually, I think it would be a good idea for them to scuttle the free plans altogether.

I don't really consider this an issue. If you really need an app with a single dyno and no idling, you could always use the Heroku scheduler addon, and tell it to ping your web app once every 10 minutes.

With the amount of free hours you get per month, per app, that would still allow you to run your dyno uninterrupted for no extra cost.

I know about the ping option but that seems to me to be cheating when using a free service. I like to pay for exactly what I use, and I am rethinking free services in general on the web. Anyway, thanks for your comment.

It would seem to me that the only difference between a "1 dyno paid for plan" and the existing "2 dyno paid for plan" is that you get an extra dyno for the same price. Am I missing something?

If they didn't have free plans they would lose the ability to have easy sign up and experiment/learn.

This is Max from Heroku. Would love to know more about your usecase for a 1 Dyno non-idling app. Feel free to drop me an email (max@...).

As a long time Heroku user and fan, this is a great thing.

Although I find the normal dynos to be really sufficient for my own work, I can imagine that having twice the power of a normal dyno would be a huge asset for many users, particularly those users who need to do memory intensive tasks (queue processors come to mind).

This is a really huge win for all Heroku users, and I'm looking forward to their continued innovation :)

Great job, guys!

Typo: "log- runtime-metrics Labs flag" but the flag is log-runtime-metrics (no space) https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/log-runtime-metrics

From the docs it appears to be just 2x memory, not 2x cpu as well?

That's my understanding... it's still worth upgrading though, at least if you're using New Relic. Should cut the New Relic costs in half.

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