Heroku moving away from free dynos

by PanMan on 4/3/2015, 10:33 AM with 15 comments

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.

  • by ahanmal on 4/3/2015, 11:07 AM

    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.

  • by jbrooksuk on 4/3/2015, 3:16 PM

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

  • by dangrossman on 4/3/2015, 12:40 PM
  • by japhyr on 4/3/2015, 1:15 PM

    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?

  • by cjfont on 4/3/2015, 11:56 AM

    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?

  • by vgabios on 4/4/2015, 3:14 AM

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

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