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In Heroku's case, it could be argued the free users were a net-negative liability, causing service outages, DNS issues, etc...
by matchagaucho 4y ago
In Heroku's case, it could be argued the free users were a net-negative liability, causing service outages, DNS issues, etc...
- e3bc54b2 4y agoWhat? Those free users are practically providing free infrastructure testing. Those low-no profit margins are hiding a lot of stuff underneath. Intel and Cloudflare are famous for reaching scale by using cheap/free end of the market to expand and solidify their positions.
- matchagaucho 4y agoSpeaking more to the torrent and zombie bot farms, and the abuse of free dynos. For legit freemium users who to "try before they buy", indeed... it's a sad day for Heroku to lose this audience.