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Re:Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours by spriggan3 on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:18PM (#11724926)
> Unfortunately, this kills my primary use case for heroku which is small personal projects. I have a dozen or so of them on the free tier right now. Heroku was great because I could throw them up for free and not really have to worry about hosting.

Well you're using their PAAS for free. Ultimately a minority of paid users are paying for all the free users, it can't go on for ever.This is true for Heroku, as well as any PAAS that has a free tier right now.

If you use Heroku for hobby projects you don't need scaling and load balancing, you might need a DB on your instance so a dropplet at DO, or using EC2 makes more sense than paying 7$ for a immutable app on Heroku servers.

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Re:Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours by fooey on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:43PM (#11725764)
I wonder if Heroku would have the userbase it does if it wasn't for them being the goto place for throwing personal projects for the last few years.

Clearly they don't believe that kind of marketing to be worth it now, but I'm sad to see that option go away.

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Re:Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours by weaksauce on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:13PM (#11726022)
I don't see the free users causing much server load. It's like how it's dumb for Adobe to go after students pirating their software... They get used to using photoshop and then demand their employer to buy it for them later on when they get a job. The hobby projects get people used to the platform and want to use it later on.
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