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]> 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]. 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.
