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They have an "addon" called a dyno for $35 p/month that stops the idling. He didn't choose that one. He has purchased other addons and is complaining he isn't

They have an "addon" called a dyno for $35 p/month that stops the idling. He didn't choose that one. He has purchased other addons and is complaining he isn't getting the benefit from this one. Of course not.

dsowers 14y ago
I don't need another dyno. I'm already running way more than this app requires. (with addons, etc..) I think the service would be more fair if the time threshold for being set to idle was governed by the amount you are paying.
- lambda 14y ago
  You are paying for 0 web dynos. They happen to be giving you one for free, but the free one comes with limitations. Yes, you are paying for a bunch of other services; but, well, those services aren't the actual web dyno that processes the actual request. Perhaps they could phrase their offerings better, but my impression was that the 1 free dyno with idling is intended for development and testing, not for production use. Once you actually need to use it in production, you need to pay for a dyno.
  - Turing_Machine 14y ago
    Yes, that was my impression also, especially since there's no limit on the number of free dynos you can have (for different projects). I was actually surprised to learn that when I looked into setting up a separate staging server for my current project -- I'd thought the free dyno was one to a customer. Nope. The staging dyno is free; I just have to wait a few seconds for it to spin up if I haven't been working with it for a while. So now I have 3 dynos (2 production, one staging) for $35/month, I can scale up or down at will, deployment is dirt simple, and I don't have to do the sysadmin crap myself. It's an extreme bargain, IMO. Now if the project takes off to the point where I need dozens of dynos all the time, that will be different, but ideally in that case I could hire a sysadmin. :-)
- redguava 14y ago
  I think it's much fairer that you can choose what you pay for. If you don't want it to idle, pay $35 and get a dyno. I wouldn't want to have to pay $100+ (or some other amount) before it stops idling.
- rhizome 14y ago
  The amount your paying and the performance you're experiencing are entirely dependent on your architecture priorities.
  - dsowers 14y ago
    fair point.
  - hnriot 14y ago
    hedging your|you're grammatical bets using both forms :)

dsowers 14y ago

I don't need another dyno. I'm already running way more than this app requires. (with addons, etc..) I think the service would be more fair if the time threshold for being set to idle was governed by the amount you are paying.

lambda 14y ago
You are paying for 0 web dynos. They happen to be giving you one for free, but the free one comes with limitations. Yes, you are paying for a bunch of other services; but, well, those services aren't the actual web dyno that processes the actual request. Perhaps they could phrase their offerings better, but my impression was that the 1 free dyno with idling is intended for development and testing, not for production use. Once you actually need to use it in production, you need to pay for a dyno.
- Turing_Machine 14y ago
  Yes, that was my impression also, especially since there's no limit on the number of free dynos you can have (for different projects). I was actually surprised to learn that when I looked into setting up a separate staging server for my current project -- I'd thought the free dyno was one to a customer. Nope. The staging dyno is free; I just have to wait a few seconds for it to spin up if I haven't been working with it for a while. So now I have 3 dynos (2 production, one staging) for $35/month, I can scale up or down at will, deployment is dirt simple, and I don't have to do the sysadmin crap myself. It's an extreme bargain, IMO. Now if the project takes off to the point where I need dozens of dynos all the time, that will be different, but ideally in that case I could hire a sysadmin. :-)
redguava 14y ago
I think it's much fairer that you can choose what you pay for. If you don't want it to idle, pay $35 and get a dyno. I wouldn't want to have to pay $100+ (or some other amount) before it stops idling.
rhizome 14y ago
The amount your paying and the performance you're experiencing are entirely dependent on your architecture priorities.
- dsowers 14y ago
  fair point.
- hnriot 14y ago
  hedging your|you're grammatical bets using both forms :)