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How is my app going to grow from 2 users per day to 20 users per day if it takes 30 seconds to un-idle my dyno? The answer is it won't because the end-user exp
by mberning 13y ago
How is my app going to grow from 2 users per day to 20 users per day if it takes 30 seconds to un-idle my dyno? The answer is it won't because the end-user experience sucks on Heroku.
My bottom of the barrel Amazon EC2 instance gives much better performance for a very reasonable $15/mo.
If one of my apps does start to get traction and I need to increase my hosting capacity you can rest assured that I will do it with Amazon. I have no reason to convert my build & deploy process back to Heroku.
They lost any future sales they could have hoped to have gotten from me.
- dantiberian 13y agoAs jaggederest said, you're not the target customer for Heroku. They are interested in hosting apps that have thousand's to hundred's of thousands of visitors a day for companies like RapGenius who don't want to focus on managing servers. It seems like you don't realise that Heroku is giving you a free dyno to run your apps on. If what they're offering for free doesn't fit your needs that's fine but don't be ungrateful about it.
- rgbrgb 13y agoI don't see what's wrong with pointing out deficiencies in the free tier. It's not as if Heroku is giving devs something out of the goodness of their hearts. It's part of their business model. He's just telling us that he doesn't use Heroku for his projects anymore because their dyno's take so long to warm up. I don't work at Heroku but I think their strategy is to make it a great / cheap platform to start an app on so that you pay them when your app gets traffic and needs to scale. If the free offering isn't compelling then the freemium business model doesn't work.
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- ihodes 13y agoYou just need to ping your website every minute. Pingdom or the like works just fine.