When they neutered the free tier last time is when I started ignoring them as a useful hosting option. My approach was always to start projects on Heroku, and

When they neutered the free tier last time is when I started ignoring them as a useful hosting option. My approach was always to start projects on Heroku, and then to keep them there when they graduated to needing more resources than the free tier provided. Now all my projects start on a little DigitalOcean instance, and when they graduate to needing serious resources, they don't go to Heroku.