Heroku to end free tier

Ympker

In case you were using this in the past, Heroku is going to shut down their free tier and purge inactive accounts.

I remember lots of YouTube and Udemy tutorials referring to Heroku free tier for their students to try things out)
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/25/heroku-announces-plans-to-eliminate-free-plans-blaming-fraud-and-abuse/

vyas

Heroku away! Till November end

Welcome to Big Company Saas.
Next: Github pages, Cloudflare Pages (?)

Decicus

@vyas said:
Next: Github pages, Cloudflare Pages (?)

Hmm, is that a fair comparison though? Both GH Pages & CF Pages are just for static sites. While they support generating static sites from things like Jekyll, can it really be compared to Heroku's offering?

Unless you're considering GH Actions and CF Workers/Functions as part of their "Pages" offering, then I suppose I could see what you mean.

jmaxwell

Free tier wasn’t much useful other than testing anyway. It’s on par with oracle cloud in terms of randomly banning free accounts.

havoc

The backlash on hn was sizable. Don't think this is a good move for them

hornet

@havoc said:
The backlash on hn was sizable. Don't think this is a good move for them

hn?

chimichurri

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32594533

havoc

@hornet said:

@havoc said:
The backlash on hn was sizable. Don't think this is a good move for them

hn?

The link above

vyas

@havoc said:
The backlash on hn was sizable. Don't think this is a good move for them

Freeloaders up in arms. 👍 Sandoz over at LET might have to look for alternative

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@Decicus said:

@vyas said:
Next: Github pages, Cloudflare Pages (?)

Hmm, is that a fair comparison though? Both GH Pages & CF Pages are just for static sites. While they support generating static sites from things like Jekyll, can it really be compared to Heroku's offering?

Unless you're considering GH Actions and CF Workers/Functions as part of their "Pages" offering, then I suppose I could see what you mean.

Underlying theme is a large Tech company buying a hobby-project-turned-developer-preference, CF maybe an exception

havoc

@vyas said:

@havoc said:
The backlash on hn was sizable. Don't think this is a good move for them

Freeloaders up in arms. 👍

Thought so too, but that link above has a surprising number of paying customers that are pissed. Seems like paying ones get free allocation too & that gets used for testing environments

vyas

@havoc said:

@vyas said:

@havoc said:
The backlash on hn was sizable. Don't think this is a good move for them

Freeloaders up in arms. 👍

Thought so too, but that link above has a surprising number of paying customers that are pissed. Seems like paying ones get free allocation too & that gets used for testing environments

Yes that is what I took away from the discussion too

feie

https://free-for.dev/#/?id=paas

Laura

goodbye~heroku~

zcorps

and what is our alternatives. my proxy is on Heroku