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If Heroku actually does make the free tier unusable (12 hours a day availability), and if custom domains aren't free anymore... then Heroku, time to part ways,

If Heroku actually does make the free tier unusable (12 hours a day availability), and if custom domains aren't free anymore... then Heroku, time to part ways, and no more referrals to others. This is the reason I chose Heroku as my platform in the first place over competitors, and if my experience is common, it worked out well for them because I have paid for premium tiers on certain apps along the way, and spoke glowingly of them to others. I'm also still a little bitter that I incurred financial loss on one app because one of their quiet upgrades bonked Ruby 2.1.1 support, causing a big delay in a critical production push. (But I'm more annoyed that this will be about $100/month cost for me to keep my lighter traffic personal apps on Heroku).

imdsm 12y ago
Most likely they will argue that you can use it 24 hours a day, just that they will cut the 750 free hours in half. Does that mean you'll pay $7 a month or $3.50 a month for a 24/7 dyno? I agree with you though, they might think they're kicking out X freeloaders, but how many of those freeloaders have production apps and how many of them are in decision making positions? If I have to leave, I'll move /everything/.
- tortilla 12y ago
  I was a freeloader for 5 or 6 low traffic sites. But now I have a production-grade app at over $700 a month.
  - glesica 12y ago
    Are you going to move your very significant app to another platform because of this? Seems like an absurd thing to do to save yourself maybe a couple hundred bucks a year...
    - tortilla 12y ago
      No, I'm very happy with Heroku. Just wanted to highlight my progression. Freeloader to paying customer. I wouldn't be a paying Heroku customer without a generous free tier to experiment with.
jhkjkhljh 12y ago
Light-traffic personal apps will probably be just fine with 350 hours per month
- practicalpants 12y ago
  Isn't this 350 hours of 'awake' dynos per month? I get more than 1 visitor on all of these sites per hour... Thus, this will not be fine at all. I will be moving everything off Heroku and investing in a new platform for my workflow if this is the case. Simple as that.

imdsm 12y ago

Most likely they will argue that you can use it 24 hours a day, just that they will cut the 750 free hours in half. Does that mean you'll pay $7 a month or $3.50 a month for a 24/7 dyno? I agree with you though, they might think they're kicking out X freeloaders, but how many of those freeloaders have production apps and how many of them are in decision making positions? If I have to leave, I'll move /everything/.

tortilla 12y ago
I was a freeloader for 5 or 6 low traffic sites. But now I have a production-grade app at over $700 a month.
- glesica 12y ago
  Are you going to move your very significant app to another platform because of this? Seems like an absurd thing to do to save yourself maybe a couple hundred bucks a year...
  - tortilla 12y ago
    No, I'm very happy with Heroku. Just wanted to highlight my progression. Freeloader to paying customer. I wouldn't be a paying Heroku customer without a generous free tier to experiment with.

jhkjkhljh 12y ago

Light-traffic personal apps will probably be just fine with 350 hours per month

practicalpants 12y ago
Isn't this 350 hours of 'awake' dynos per month? I get more than 1 visitor on all of these sites per hour... Thus, this will not be fine at all. I will be moving everything off Heroku and investing in a new platform for my workflow if this is the case. Simple as that.