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Link doesn't work for me. From another source I found: Free – Experiment in your own dev or demo app with a web and a worker dyno for free. Sleeps after 1 hr o

Link doesn't work for me. From another source I found: Free – Experiment in your own dev or demo app with a web and a worker dyno for free. Sleeps after 1 hr of inactivity. Active up to 12 hours a day. No custom domains. 512 MB RAM. Hobby – Run a small app 24×7 with the Heroku developer experience for $7/dyno/mo. Custom domains. Run a maximum of one dyno per Procfile entry. 512 MB RAM. Standard 1X, 2X: Build production apps of any size or complexity. Run multiple dynos per Procfile entry to scale out. App metrics, faster builds and preboot. All Hobby features. 512MB or 1GB RAM. $25 or $50/dyno/mo. Performance – Isolated dynos for your large-scale, high-performance apps. All Standard features. Compose your app with performance and standard dynos. 6GB RAM. $500/dyno/mo. H/T http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881 http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881

enginous 12y ago
So, it seems that the change for production apps is that you can now somehow commit to a monthly price for dynos and get a discount. 1X – $25/month compared to $36.5/month (by the hour). 2X – $50/month compared to $73/month (by the hour). PX – $500/month compared to $584/month (by the hour).
- colinbartlett 12y ago
  Except all projects, including production ones currently get the first dyno free. So my 1x$0 + 2x$36 now becomes 3x$25.
stolio 12y ago
Did the free-tier just drop from 750 to ~350 dyno-hours/month? Does no custom domains mean no DNS redirects? https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/billing https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/billing edit: I read TFL, no more free tier with a cron job hitting it hourly to keep it awake 24/7. Can't say I'm surprised.
- riffraff 12y ago
  well amazon's free tier allows you to have a smallish machine up 24/7 (for a year), seems to me heroku is going to push away a lot of smallish side projects that might have evolved into actual usage.
  - petercooper 12y ago
    Is there anyone outside of a total beginner or a newly created company who hasn't had an AWS account for over a year now? I don't even use mine a lot (mostly S3) but signed up very early on just to check it out, as with most things, so I wonder how relevant Amazon's free tier even is now.
    - riffraff 12y ago
      you might have an AWS account but not necessarily to run a web app, cause you're in the "meh, I'd rather do git push heroku now than learn to setup elastic beanstalk/opsworks+docker/ec2+deis". The latter becomes more attractive now, and once you have learned to use AWS's X tech to run $SILLY_SERVICE you might end up using it for $SERIOUS_SERVICE.
      - imdsm 12y ago
        I am in charge of a high volume, medium sized deis setup, and have been actively using deis since 0.2.0, but I don't have that kind of setup for my personal blog. It's overkill. Heroku is easier and allows me to get one with development, so I use Heroku. It's not so much a "meh, I'd rather do git push heroku now than learn to setup elastic beanstalk/opsworks+docker/ec2+deis" than it is a "I just want to develop a quick idea without wasting time on ops".
      - tedmiston 12y ago
        To be fair, an EC2 box alone is all you really need for a simple site...
- erjiang 12y ago
  Under this tentative scheme, if you want to point example.com to exampleapp.herokuapp.com then you'd need to be on the $7/month tier. I don't know why you'd want to point your domain to an app that's only up half the time anyways, so I don't think this is a big deal.
  - stolio 12y ago
    Good to know. Domain redirects are useful for portfolio apps if you'd like to have some coherency in your urls, and maybe you're not trying to showcase that your app is on Heroku's free tier at that moment. That's legitimate, it's also a use case where 12 hours/day is likely sufficient. However users breaking TOS and keeping those apps awake 24/7 so recruiters don't have to wait ~30s for them to load is probably a problem Heroku's trying to solve.
michaelbuckbee 12y ago
It's probably worth nothing that these prices were part of a private beta, may or may not actually be the final prices.
- sleepyhead 12y ago
  And that the private beta has an NDA.
  - imdsm 12y ago
    Guessing that's a had now.

enginous 12y ago

So, it seems that the change for production apps is that you can now somehow commit to a monthly price for dynos and get a discount. 1X – $25/month compared to $36.5/month (by the hour). 2X – $50/month compared to $73/month (by the hour). PX – $500/month compared to $584/month (by the hour).

colinbartlett 12y ago
Except all projects, including production ones currently get the first dyno free. So my 1x$0 + 2x$36 now becomes 3x$25.

stolio 12y ago

Did the free-tier just drop from 750 to ~350 dyno-hours/month? Does no custom domains mean no DNS redirects? https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/billing https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/billing edit: I read TFL, no more free tier with a cron job hitting it hourly to keep it awake 24/7. Can't say I'm surprised.

riffraff 12y ago
well amazon's free tier allows you to have a smallish machine up 24/7 (for a year), seems to me heroku is going to push away a lot of smallish side projects that might have evolved into actual usage.
- petercooper 12y ago
  Is there anyone outside of a total beginner or a newly created company who hasn't had an AWS account for over a year now? I don't even use mine a lot (mostly S3) but signed up very early on just to check it out, as with most things, so I wonder how relevant Amazon's free tier even is now.
  - riffraff 12y ago
    you might have an AWS account but not necessarily to run a web app, cause you're in the "meh, I'd rather do git push heroku now than learn to setup elastic beanstalk/opsworks+docker/ec2+deis". The latter becomes more attractive now, and once you have learned to use AWS's X tech to run $SILLY_SERVICE you might end up using it for $SERIOUS_SERVICE.
    - imdsm 12y ago
      I am in charge of a high volume, medium sized deis setup, and have been actively using deis since 0.2.0, but I don't have that kind of setup for my personal blog. It's overkill. Heroku is easier and allows me to get one with development, so I use Heroku. It's not so much a "meh, I'd rather do git push heroku now than learn to setup elastic beanstalk/opsworks+docker/ec2+deis" than it is a "I just want to develop a quick idea without wasting time on ops".
    - tedmiston 12y ago
      To be fair, an EC2 box alone is all you really need for a simple site...
erjiang 12y ago
Under this tentative scheme, if you want to point example.com to exampleapp.herokuapp.com then you'd need to be on the $7/month tier. I don't know why you'd want to point your domain to an app that's only up half the time anyways, so I don't think this is a big deal.
- stolio 12y ago
  Good to know. Domain redirects are useful for portfolio apps if you'd like to have some coherency in your urls, and maybe you're not trying to showcase that your app is on Heroku's free tier at that moment. That's legitimate, it's also a use case where 12 hours/day is likely sufficient. However users breaking TOS and keeping those apps awake 24/7 so recruiters don't have to wait ~30s for them to load is probably a problem Heroku's trying to solve.

michaelbuckbee 12y ago

It's probably worth nothing that these prices were part of a private beta, may or may not actually be the final prices.

sleepyhead 12y ago
And that the private beta has an NDA.
- imdsm 12y ago
  Guessing that's a had now.