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That would be a despicable thing for Heroku to do: you're paying them for capacity by the dyno-hour, but they don't keep all of them resident while they're paid
by blasdel 17y ago
That would be a despicable thing for Heroku to do: you're paying them for capacity by the dyno-hour, but they don't keep all of them resident while they're paid for?
App Engine is the opposite: you're paying for the usage, so they spin up/down as much capacity as necessary to satisfy the volume you're willing to pay for.
- mark_l_watson 17y agoYou might be right that Heroku always keeps all of your dynos "spinning." If they do spin them down for the two less expensive shared cluster options, that seems OK, at least for my understanding of their service options. My customers used (for a while) the cheaper shared cluster options. If you are paying more for the dedicated cluster options, then I agree with you that they should not be spun down. Certainly, it is OK for them to spin down the free option dynos if they don't get HTTP requests for some reasonable time period.
- hopeless 17y agoThat's exactly what they do: spin down inactive free app. Anything which is paid for will never be spun down