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Now I wander if Heroku prices will follow or if they'll decide to just pocket the difference themselves.

by Vitaly 13y ago

rschmitty 13y ago
Does heroku run on the dedicated servers? Dedicated being different from 100% utilization reserved servers http://aws.amazon.com/dedicated-instances/ http://aws.amazon.com/dedicated-instances/ vs http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ (which did not get 80% cuts)
- brentm 13y ago
  I'd think they would employ dedicated instances which they then subdivide to keep their customers as isolated as possible.
  - the_mitsuhiko 13y ago
    Aren't dedicated instances only available in VPCs? In that case Heroku would not use them as all Heroku machines are public.
    - flyt 13y ago
      You can easily make a VPC fully public, or have fully public subdivisions.
wilfra 13y ago
Have been on Heroku for about two years and can't recall a single price reduction in anything. I think it's pretty clear that pocketing the difference in the steady AWS price reductions is exactly what Heroku does.
- EamonLeonard 13y ago
  Disclosure: I work for Engine Yard. We've dropped our prices a number of times, the lastest a few months ago: https://blog.engineyard.com/2013/announcing-lower-pricing https://blog.engineyard.com/2013/announcing-lower-pricing
  - rgbrgb 13y ago
    And yet hosting a small app on engineyard (with hopes of hitting it big) is still infinitely more expensive than Heroku beyond the 20 day trial .
    - EamonLeonard 13y ago
      "infinitely", cool. We've plenty of customers who migrate to us when they "hit it big". It's no secret that that's where Engine Yard has been positioned for a long time. The point of us dropping prices was so we could pass value onto our customers.
      - rgbrgb 13y ago
        Yep, infinitely: 0 vs. ~$40 right? Not sure why you downvoted.
cowsandmilk 13y ago
I highly doubt Heroku pays list price for their servers. Any public EC2 price change is probably mostly irrelevant to them, other than as a baseline for their negotiations.
fomb 13y ago
Heroku don't use these.

Now I wander if Heroku prices will follow or if they'll decide to just pocket the difference themselves.

by Vitaly 13y ago

Now I wander if Heroku prices will follow or if they'll decide to just pocket the difference themselves.

Does heroku run on the dedicated servers? Dedicated being different from 100% utilization reserved servers http://aws.amazon.com/dedicated-instances/ http://aws.amazon.com/dedicated-instances/ vs http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ (which did not get 80% cuts)

brentm 13y ago
I'd think they would employ dedicated instances which they then subdivide to keep their customers as isolated as possible.
- the_mitsuhiko 13y ago
  Aren't dedicated instances only available in VPCs? In that case Heroku would not use them as all Heroku machines are public.
  - flyt 13y ago
    You can easily make a VPC fully public, or have fully public subdivisions.

wilfra 13y ago

Have been on Heroku for about two years and can't recall a single price reduction in anything. I think it's pretty clear that pocketing the difference in the steady AWS price reductions is exactly what Heroku does.

EamonLeonard 13y ago
Disclosure: I work for Engine Yard. We've dropped our prices a number of times, the lastest a few months ago: https://blog.engineyard.com/2013/announcing-lower-pricing https://blog.engineyard.com/2013/announcing-lower-pricing
- rgbrgb 13y ago
  And yet hosting a small app on engineyard (with hopes of hitting it big) is still infinitely more expensive than Heroku beyond the 20 day trial .
  - EamonLeonard 13y ago
    "infinitely", cool. We've plenty of customers who migrate to us when they "hit it big". It's no secret that that's where Engine Yard has been positioned for a long time. The point of us dropping prices was so we could pass value onto our customers.
    - rgbrgb 13y ago
      Yep, infinitely: 0 vs. ~$40 right? Not sure why you downvoted.

cowsandmilk 13y ago

I highly doubt Heroku pays list price for their servers. Any public EC2 price change is probably mostly irrelevant to them, other than as a baseline for their negotiations.

fomb 13y ago

Heroku don't use these.