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What are your thoughts on the changes of free dynos on Heroku?
- mtmail 11y agopricing page for reference: https://www.heroku.com/pricing 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 https://addons.heroku.com/ssl)
- siquick 11y agoWish I'd thought of that script :-) $7 is pretty good value for what they offer. Happy to pay it.
- kennycox 11y agoYou can purchase an SSL certificate individually and install it manually on your Heroku server. I bought my comodo certificate from ssl2buy.com only at $10, they provide free installation support.
- tectonic 11y agoPretty annoying that your website will be completely down for 6 hours a day. Huginn can no longer be hosted on Heroku, which is making it harder for new users to try it out.
- marcofiset 11y agoWhat's paying 7$/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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