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Actually, it is too bad that they closed this loophole. 7$ for each low traffic app is too much.

If you're looking for an alternative, you might want to check out https://www.tutum.co/. They are a bring-your-own-cloud solution that lets you deploy Docker containers to services like DigitalOcean and AWS, and they do a lot of the deployment automation Heroku does.

That's still $5 a month minimum from, for example, DigitalOcean. For that, why not just pay the extra $2 and skip any potential headaches?

For a single app, yes. if you can fit 2 or three on a $10 VPS things look different.

I didn't like the fact that this installs its own docker that is incompatible with the docker from the official site.

It's actually the same binary - the tutum agent just downloads it and upgrades it when requested. If you had docker already installed using a storage engine different than AUFS, because the tutum agent installer tries to use the AUFS storage engine (way more stable than "devicemapper"), you won't be able to "see" what you had in your previous storage engine. But the binary is the one from https://docs.docker.com/installation/binaries/#get-the-linux...

Our research suggests that almost all low traffic apps should continue to run fine on the `free` dynos. If yours don't, send me an email: pvh at heroku

Background workers aside, one of the most compelling reasons I've seen for a pinging service is the several seconds of waiting that beta users experience in experimental projects.

Running lots of experiments is always good (hobby or otherwise), and I'm very happy to see Heroku still embracing experimentation. But it hurts your experiment when you tell someone to visit a site and they click away after a few seconds of a blank page.

Is there any work going into speeding up the wakeup time?

I have had good experiences running several low traffic web apps (written in Clojure + Compojure + Clojurescript) on one Digital Ocean instance. Right now I am running a ton of stuff on one small Azure instance, getting perhaps just a few hundred thousand HTTP requests per day. But, a $5/month Digital Ocean VPS would probably handle all of your hobby sites.

I am looking to migrate a few of my hobby projects to the Heroku $7/month tier and try that for a few months as a test.

I am happy with their new pricing scheme - seems fair all around.

Yep, $7 is way too much

I've quit buying domains for a lot of my "hobby" apps cuz $12 a year is wasteful

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