I'll add that free dyno are put to sleep to save resources and to allow us to offer that functionality. Paid dynos are not. A dyno represents 512 mb or Ram. Increasing dynos increases the load your site can handle.
Because of this scalability the disks are "ephemeral" you can write and read to them but they are cleared when the machine restarts. If you need to store something like images use S3. If you need to store session data use a database, memcache, and/or signed cookies. -- Richard Schneeman http://heroku.com @schneems Sent from the road On Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 11:53 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Here goes... > > So what does Heroku actually do? It's a cloud application platform. > Does it host websites too? Yes - you can use Ruby, Java, Python, Clojure, > Scala and Node.js. > How do the plans and pricing work? These are explained at > http://www.heroku.com/pricing > What are these web dynos and worker dynos? Web dynos run threads for web > browser clients. Works run background or non-client threads. > What are production databases? Production databases offer more uptime. > What all can I run on Heroku? I don't understand the question. > How good is the free plan for development and testing purpose? They're just > fine, unless you need a worker; then you'll have to pay. > How do I know which is the suitable plan for me? Start with the cheapest and > scale up if it's too slow for you users. > > My advice though would be to just crack on and try it! > > Hope that helps! > > > On Saturday, October 6, 2012 7:45:25 AM UTC+1, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am new to this cloud application hosting stuff. And lately I have been > > hearing a lot about Heroku. So I wanted to know few stuffs about it because > > I googled a lot but couldn't find convincing answers. > > > > So what does Heroku actually do? Does it host websites too? > > > > How do the plans and pricing work? What are these web dynos and worker > > dynos? What are production databases? What all can I run on Heroku? > > > > How good is the free plan for development and testing purpose? How do I > > know which is the suitable plan for me? > > > > After some of these basic questions are answered, I would like to query > > more considering I have some basic knowledge about Heroku. > > > > Thank you. > -- > 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 -- 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
