since some time I cannot choose the free dyno option anymore on heroku and wondering why that is? I could not find any hints in the docu
here on the left I could choose the free dyno option in the past. Now its gone.
When I simply switch off the dyno, the app does not work anymore:
How can I get back to free dyno usage on heroku for my app?
The app referenced above is part of heroku teams, this is why free dynos are not possible there.
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-teams#supported-dyno-types
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I just joined someones heroku app as a collaborator and all we need is 1000 hours a month. So he added his cc but now I cannot select a free dyno. If i turn on a dyno it says $7 rather than 0. How can I downgrade to free dynos again?
From Heroku documentation
Free dynos, which are available for personal apps, are not available to Teams.
Create your own applications and use them for free, but cannot share this with anyone else.
No, I don't have any add-ons that charge me.
I tried reading how the free Dynos work but I didn't find anything regarding this issue. Here is an image
I'm no expert (just deployed my first app), but it seems that there's a clear indication of free or not in the overview tab for your app. For example, I see
on my app page. Presumably one would turn paid features on and off using the Configure Dynos link.
The build time for my Heroku app is quite slow, especially when compared with building it on my local development machine.
It's possible to specify the dyno type being used for app instances, including one-off instances, to use more powerful hardware. Is there any way to specify the dyno type used for builds?
Alternatively, are there any good workarounds for slow build times? Perhaps building with a different service and then deploying that pre-built image/tarball?
No, this is not possible. All Heroku builds run on Performance-M dynos.
I am a beginner trying to understand why do I or others need heroku or other cloud services for application development. I want to know for what sort of applications or scenarios, do we need heroku or similar services?
For example, if I am an application developer, I can write my application (windows or linux) on my machine, run and test it on my machine and then share it publicly on sourceforge.net or some other website for free or for some money. I mean all of us download and run applications and programs from all over the web e.g., notepad++ or skype. They come as binaries and we can install them on our machines easily. I want to know where Heroku or cloud comes into the picture and do I/we need it? and why?
Please let me know if you need more explanation.
Heroku and Other PaaS providers helps you in application deployment and gives hosting of your application and some other features like High availability, scaling, load balancing, monitoring and ready made environment to run your apps.
Now why they cost? PaaS providers runs your application on virtual instance and use some management and deployment tool in front of it to manage and monitor your application that taken care for you. Manging a server is not easy now a day for big application, you need a high level of expertise and enough time to monitor periodically(may be hours). If you go for free hosting, you will not get all these feature of PaaS. Again it's your choice. If you can't bear down time and any data lose, you should prefer PaaS else you can go for Free hosting.
First of all notepad++ is not an application users of which need to interact or share. So it is not a good choice for to give an example. Heroku and other cloud providers host cloud applications. Generally, these applications, as part of their nature, need scaling. And scaling requires more hardware. Setting up hardware to scale your application requires time, money and expertise, so it is expensive. Buying these as a service is more appropriate for most people. I would offer you to read about IAAS, PAAS, SAAS concepts to start.
For a beginner or an individual hobbyist, the charm of Heroku or a similar PaaS lies in the fact that Heroku (and others) do away with the complexity of building and deploying cloud/web/saas software.
A typical app developer just knows/needs to know about his/her app. That is it. Why should you have to worry about how many machines you need to run your app on or get charged for machine time when you are sipping coffee and your app isn't doing anything or you are just trying out new things and don't know if it works. You can just write code and push your app to Heroku (or other platforms like it) and let them worry about things like servers, availability and reliability of your app. Yes, you will need to make some simple choices but those are much simpler choices than planning for scalability or database backup. And like any software platform, you will learn with time as to what suits your needs best. You adjust your app and things work fine. And remember you pay only for what you use and that can go up or down when you do more or less with the platform.
Also, if your app turns out to be a really popular app and you need to scale the app to support your newly founded fame :), you can ramp up your infrastructure on the fly for some affordable price.
We're looking to build out our mobile app using Stackmob and Heroku for backend.
There is a Heroku Addon that enables a developer to control the app server-side logic using Rails.
There is not much documentation available on this addon nor are there examples.
There is a fair bit of media coverage on the add-on but no clear implementation and use-case path.
If any one in the community has some insight, we and other developers would sure benefit from hearing more.
I believe the StackMob Heroku add-on is discontinued. You can still sign up for StackMob directly on the StackMob site and use in your Heroku apps. They have multiple getting-started guides, including for Ruby, if that's what you use.
I'm the platform evangelist for StackMob.
friism is correct, we recently discontinued the StackMob Heroku add-on. (basically a way to provision an account and get up and running a little quicker on Heroku with StackMob)
This change won't prevent you from using StackMob on the Heroku platform.