I'm confused here. The 'starter' package is only ~$35/mo which isn't exactly monumentally expensive. Are you suggesting something between that and free? What you're suggesting sounds like your charged by the CPU cycle rather than the hours?
To be brutally honest, I host loads of apps on 1 web dyno and just make sure that the spin up time is short enough that it's not a problem. If I ever need to run more than 1 web dyno it's generally because the traffic levels require it, in which case $35 becomes less of a problem. Personally, I think that having a single dyno, which can still serve hundreds of thousands of requests a day /for free/ is a pretty good deal. I'm happy to pay $35 to double it. Neil On Friday, 17 February 2012 at 12:44, Nick wrote: > Peter, > > I take your points well. I don't mean to try and 'do one over' on > Heroku. I appreciate the service you offer very much. My thinking > behind it was that you would never exceed the 450 hours of dyno time > allocated to each app so there wouldn't be a problem and if you did > you would be charged anyway. > > Is there a paid for solution from Heroku to achieve the same result? > The cost jump between 1 free dyno and paying for a dyno is quite large > for small applications. So perhaps you could offer a $10 package which > essentialy works the same way? If i'm honest I don't feel I pay Heroku > enough but I have too many small apps (10 or so) to pay for each one > to have a dedicated dyno. > > ? > On Feb 16, 8:39 pm, Peter van Hardenberg <[email protected] > (http://heroku.com)> wrote: > > As a database guy at Heroku, I'm not one to speak authoritatively on > > this, so please take this as the personal thoughts of someone and not > > an official statement. > > > > We idle apps in order to avoid having to charge for them. The more > > people who prevent this behaviour, the more expensive our "free" apps > > become to run, and the more likely we are to have to change our > > policies about what we can offer in a free app. > > > > While I admire the ingenuity in this post, I would suggest that you > > reduce the amount of time your application takes to boot, or simply > > accept that a few seconds of lag on the first request after a period > > of idleness is a reasonable trade-off for free web hosting. > > > > Peter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
