[HN Gopher] Our New Low-Cost Plans
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       Our New Low-Cost Plans
        
       Author : edmorley
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-09-26 21:08 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | infecto wrote:
       | Maybe it works but this really feels like too little too late.
       | Heroku was amazing for so long and then just stagnated.
        
       | danpalmer wrote:
       | It's important to note that "sleeping while inactive" is not
       | quite paying for what you use. These Dynos will start up to serve
       | a request, and stay active constantly until they receive no
       | traffic for 30 minutes.
       | 
       | This means, if you want to run a small cron job once an hour,
       | you'll still pay for half a month of usage. Similarly, a very
       | small amount of traffic spread evenly will still use up these
       | hours quickly. It also doesn't come with any Postgres, that's
       | another $5.
       | 
       | $5-10 a month isn't a lot, but it's very different to Free, and
       | if you're going to pay it might be worth considering hobbyist-
       | friendly alternatives. A $5 VM goes a long way for services with
       | a little traffic or a bunch of hourly cron jobs.
        
         | phamilton wrote:
         | A suggestion for free hobbyist-friendly alternative: Oracle ARM
         | instances have a very generous Always Free tier (4 vCPU + 24GB
         | RAM).
        
           | metadat wrote:
           | + 10GB of free object storage.
           | 
           | Enough to run SQLite with streaming backup.
        
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