New Heroku Pricing

akerl_ · on March 31, 2015

It seems like the short version is that they're removing the ability to run a small app 24/7 on a single free dyno. Maybe the right decision for them in the long term, but it definitely means I'll be migrating away from Heroku for apps I would have otherwise kept there at the free tier and potentially scaled up there in the future.

Any word yet on if existing apps will be grandfathered into their existing pricing model?

grandalf · on March 31, 2015

> removing the ability to run a small app 24/7 on a single free dyno

This is correct. The first step was removing varnish (which happened a few years ago).

Now, Heroku is hoping to get $7/month from many of the freeloaders. I highly doubt this would make sense if Heroku planned to grandfather anyone.

thinkbohemian · on April 2, 2015

> The first step was removing varnish

This was removed for architectural reasons. It brought a lot of downtime to the platform and didn't help speed all that much. It's better and faster to cache this type of content with a CDN anyway.

Brushfire · on March 31, 2015

I'm not surprised - I know of at least 3 companies that were abusing the free tier -- running thousands or 10s of thousands of simultaneous dynos on free and keeping them awake.

Honestly, its kind of amazing they let it go on this long.

ceejayoz · on March 31, 2015

Won't they just run twice as many for half-days each?

jonaldomo · on March 31, 2015

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/usage-and-billing#750-...

yeasayer · on March 31, 2015

Really sad news. Now I have to change the pinging strategy to prevent idling and choose which 12 hours part of the day my app should be available. Probably will migrate my apps to AWS Beanstalk or OpenShift.

jscheel · on March 31, 2015

Is this a reliable source?

colinbartlett · on March 31, 2015

I am OP and it was sent to many people, including myself, in an email from Heroku. Here's a screenshot from their site (which requires login):

http://i.imgur.com/PdZT3JQ.png

jscheel · on April 1, 2015

Thanks OP, I appreciate the verification!

bbody · on April 1, 2015

Off to AWS for me.