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Heroku does have a free tier, but it's intended for experiments. It's very limited and wouldn't be acceptable for any serious website, certainly not a 'world cl
by callumlocke 9y ago
Heroku does have a free tier, but it's intended for experiments. It's very limited and wouldn't be acceptable for any serious website, certainly not a 'world class' setup. Unless you're very careful to have one free dyno per account, and avoid using features like staging apps, they will power down your server for several hours a day.
- ainiriand 9y agoYou probably should not use the free tier for any serious website or 'world class' setup...
- simonw 9y agoYeah, the “world-class” hook was more about the quality of these tools than their applicability for use at scale for free - I encourage people to pay real money at various points in the article. I’m currently running my blog on a single $7/month Heroku Dyno (plus $9/month for Heroku PostgreSQL) behind a free Cloudflare account - with the right caching headers I can easily handle huge amounts of read traffic. I was going to mention Cloudflare in this piece but I decided it didn’t fit the theme of continuous deployment as well as the other tools.