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Heroku moving away from free dynos

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I didn't find a blog post yet, but when logged in to heroku, they announce new pricing, linking to this page: https://www.heroku.com/private/beta-pricing (which needs a signin). Before the free tier allowed you to run 1 dyno for free all month (going down if there is no traffic). Now the hobby tier only allows you to run half a month, or you pay $7/month.

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Yup. I am not that excited about the changes. I run a production web app on 2 dynos with 1 standard PostgreSQL DB and SSL, and my bill is over $100 per month. I am looking to moving over to DigitalOcean, where an equivalent setup starts at only $20 per month.

Totally worth the move. Only $80 now but it only gets worse...

You could try Pivotal Web Services[0].

If your software works on Heroku, it should work on PWS. Most of the buildpacks code is derived from Heroku's.

Not sure how the pricing[1] compares.

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal Labs, which is part of Pivotal. Until recently I was on secondment to work on buildpacks.

[0] https://run.pivotal.io/

[1] https://run.pivotal.io/pricing/

It's probably worth mentioning that you could also do the same thing on Amazon. With some of their tooling (like Elastic Beanstalk) their deployments have become exceptionally simple. Also, their pricing for their performance is extremely competitive. If you go a reserve instance it can be even better.

That's not a bad idea. I just priced it out and it comes to around $60 per month. Much cheaper, except now I need to pick up the cost of New Relic or an equivalent service.

Cachet is dropping Heroku support, partially due to this change in pricing. https://blog.cachethq.io/dropping-native-heroku-support/

@Cachet: Link your (main) site from your blog!

Yeah I absolutely should do that!

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9295874

I saw this posted the other day, but I still have one unanswered question. The free tier is now ~350 hours/ month. Dynos go to sleep after 1 hour. Does that mean an app that's used a few times a day will be free, because sleeping dynos don't accrue charges? If your app starts to get enough use that it's staying awake continuously, you'll have to start paying for it?

No, you're still charged for sleeping dynos.

I can't seem to be able to get to that page, even when I'm signed into my Heroku account. When I try to go to the above link, I'm instantly redirected to https://www.heroku.com/home. Anyone else observing the same thing?

Me too. They are probably preparing a better planned announcement...

It is in private beta

Anyone create a mass Heroku app delete app or CLI yet?

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