What are your thoughts on the changes of free dynos on Heroku?

3 pointskarlcoelho110y ago5 comments

5 comments

pricing page for reference: https://www.heroku.com/pricing

I'm sure there was massive abuse. All you needed was a script that regularly pings (well HTTP request) your dyno and it would never suspend. The next best alternative would have been free trial period. I have a friend who does Wordpress hosting and the stories I hear about their abuse cases on the free tier are scary.

Heroku's free dynos still serve their purpose and are good enough for prototyping, testing and (during office hours) staging.

In my opinion it was the right decision.

(Charging $20/month for hosting an existing SSL certificate is too expensive though. https://addons.heroku.com/ssl)

kennycox10y ago

You can purchase an SSL certificate individually and install it manually on your Heroku server. I bought my comodo certificate from ssl2buy.com only at $10, they provide free installation support.

siquick10y ago

Wish I'd thought of that script :-)

$7 is pretty good value for what they offer. Happy to pay it.

tectonic10y ago

Pretty annoying that your website will be completely down for 6 hours a day.

Huginn can no longer be hosted on Heroku, which is making it harder for new users to try it out.

marcofiset10y ago

What's paying 7$/month to keep your app alive 24/7?

The cheapest Digital Ocean instance is 5$/month but then you don't have all the goodies like plugins and auto-deploys.

I'd be more than happy to pay Heroku if I had any public facing apps that required more uptime, but for those simple personal apps I don't require it.

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