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TLDR; Before you got 18 hours a day per app on the free tier (5 apps max) Now you get 550 hours per month in total for all your free apps (so 18 hours a day f

TLDR; Before you got 18 hours a day per app on the free tier (5 apps max) Now you get 550 hours per month in total for all your free apps (so 18 hours a day for all your apps instead of per app). It's clear they are trying to kill the free dynos but who can blame them? Heroku is still good if you need simple scaling and load balancing for commercial projects. Heroku main selling point use to be easy deployment , but with Docker and solutions like that, it's not longer true. I wonder if there is some room for an ultra cheap "micro" PAAS, like 2$/month per instance, with 250 Mb space and 128 Mb RAM or something like that. With the development of new, efficient languages such as Go or Crystal which can operate on tight configurations, I wonder if this model would be viable.

RangerScience 10y ago
Naah. I don't think they're trying to kill the free dyno. I think they're trying to prevent abuse. I have one hobby app. I use it, maybe, a hour a week. So that's a dyno that's on for, oh, maybe two hours a week, but more likely less (since the sleep timeout is, what, five minutes?). Barely makes a dent in my free hours. When I actually want this useable, I bump it up a tier for the week or two, and we're done. Cost of a good meal. Beside, we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg: Could be this is a change brought on by deeper changes in the billing system, such that this method ends up being simpler.
petercooper 10y ago
I wonder if there is some room for an ultra cheap "micro" PAAS, like 2$/month per instance, with 250 Mb space and 128 Mb RAM or something like that. Get a €2.99/mo Scaleway VPS (2GB memory, 50GB SSD), install Dokku - http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/ http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/ - and you basically have a Heroku-like environment for next to nothing (especially as you can host a bunch of apps on that single instance). (Update: Didn't know Scaleway was still queued up for signups. Replace with DigitalOcean for $5 if you're in a rush - and host fewer apps per box ;-))
doublerebel 10y ago
Joyent's Instances/Triton/Docker was already under $3/mo for the 128M instances, now they've just lowered it to ~$2.16/mo (720 hours at 0.0030). I've been able to do a surprising amount on the tiny instances, especially since they scale up/down near instantly.
tedmiston 10y ago
> I wonder if there is some room for an ultra cheap "micro" PAAS PythonAnywhere is kind of like that. The hacker plan base cost is $5/mo + $2/mo per web app. https://www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/ https://www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/

RangerScience 10y ago

Naah. I don't think they're trying to kill the free dyno. I think they're trying to prevent abuse. I have one hobby app. I use it, maybe, a hour a week. So that's a dyno that's on for, oh, maybe two hours a week, but more likely less (since the sleep timeout is, what, five minutes?). Barely makes a dent in my free hours. When I actually want this useable, I bump it up a tier for the week or two, and we're done. Cost of a good meal. Beside, we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg: Could be this is a change brought on by deeper changes in the billing system, such that this method ends up being simpler.

petercooper 10y ago

I wonder if there is some room for an ultra cheap "micro" PAAS, like 2$/month per instance, with 250 Mb space and 128 Mb RAM or something like that. Get a €2.99/mo Scaleway VPS (2GB memory, 50GB SSD), install Dokku - http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/ http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/ - and you basically have a Heroku-like environment for next to nothing (especially as you can host a bunch of apps on that single instance). (Update: Didn't know Scaleway was still queued up for signups. Replace with DigitalOcean for $5 if you're in a rush - and host fewer apps per box ;-))

doublerebel 10y ago

Joyent's Instances/Triton/Docker was already under $3/mo for the 128M instances, now they've just lowered it to ~$2.16/mo (720 hours at 0.0030). I've been able to do a surprising amount on the tiny instances, especially since they scale up/down near instantly.

tedmiston 10y ago

> I wonder if there is some room for an ultra cheap "micro" PAAS PythonAnywhere is kind of like that. The hacker plan base cost is $5/mo + $2/mo per web app. https://www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/ https://www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/