I would answer your question by yes: something between free and 36$ for less resources.
There're plenty of hosting options for 5-10$/month. In another market (.NET), compare http://www.winhost.com/ with 5$/mo dynamic up that's up all the time. I have an old blog running there for 10$/mo, great. I would love to rewrite it in Ruby and push it to Heroku, but price is certainly not competitive for something small. On Friday, February 17, 2012 7:48:46 AM UTC-5, Neil Middleton wrote: > > 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]> 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. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. 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_US?hl=en
