[HN Gopher] Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut ...
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Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free
dynos Monday
For other HN'ers out there who have personal projects on Heroku and
might've forgotten (like I did), this weekend is the last chance to
get data out of Heroku (or upgrade to paid plans) before it deletes
databases/Redis and shuts down free dynos on Monday. > What
products are impacted by the removal of free plans? > > `free`
dynos, `hobby-dev` Heroku Postgres, and `hobby-dev` Heroku Data for
Redis plans. > > What happens if I take no action on my free apps
or databases or do not upgrade to a paid plan? > > If you take no
action by November 28, 2022: > > - `free` dynos will be converted
to `eco` dynos scaled down to 0. You must subscribe to the Eco dyno
hours plan or upgrade to another paid plan before you can scale
them up again. Any Scheduler jobs that used free dynos will fail
until they are reconfigured to use another dyno type. > - For non-
Enterprise users, `hobby-dev` databases will be deleted in
accordance with the Heroku Documentation starting November 28,
2022. > - For Enterprise users, `hobby-dev` databases that belong
to an Enterprise Account or Team will be converted to `mini`. There
will be no immediate change in cost to your Heroku Enterprise
invoices if an app is upgraded from a free tier resource to a paid
tier resource. Any changes to Heroku Enterprise pricing would
require a contract update to take effect. If you have any concerns
about your contract pricing, contact your account executive. > -
`hobby-dev` databases that belong to personal accounts will be
deleted, and `free dynos` will be converted to `eco` dynos scaled
down to 0, even if that user also belongs to an Enterprise Team.
These users must upgrade to paid resources before November 28,
2022. ref: https://help.heroku.com/RSBRUH58/removal-of-heroku-
free-product-plans-faq I'm personally moving my projects to a
self-hosted dokku cluster, but I've heard good things about fly and
render too.
Author : nja
Score : 73 points
Date : 2022-11-26 19:16 UTC (3 hours ago)
| p2detar wrote:
| I've migrated an old PHP7 app from Heroku to GCP the last couple
| of weeks. I rewrote the CRUD in Go. The rest of the components
| were an SQLite database and an old (2013) SPA that holds up
| surprisingly good even today.
|
| Heroku seemed 1000s of times easier to work with for smaller
| scale projects, but for now I'm OK with GCP. Although, I
| sometimes get lost in all the menus and settings.
|
| Heroku account: deleted.
| skilled wrote:
| I understand this is news for a few months now but still, such a
| hostile way to just unplug projects and to an extent, the history
| of the web.
|
| I doubt Salesforce is struggling with cash not to let these
| projects stay online on a "read only" mode.
| clintonb wrote:
| What would you propose they do differently?
| sieabahlpark wrote:
| gl-prod wrote:
| Rip Heroku
| lkrubner wrote:
| A fun fact (and I'm not violating any NDA here) my client
| https://paireyewear.com is growing very fast and last year they
| raised $73 million from VC investors. They have their main store
| on Shopify, so they didn't need too much on the backend: only
| their CRM for keeping customers happy and handling returns and
| damaged goods and refunds and special sales. Also, on the
| backend, they had all the integrations with the 3PL, that is, 3rd
| Party Logistics, which is to say, they worked with external
| warehouses, because they weren't ready to have their own
| warehouses. They did have integrations with the warehouses so
| they could track inventory levels.
|
| So the fun fact is this: they were running entirely on free
| Heroku dynos. This year they successfully transferred to AWS, but
| they got to a fairly big scale while running entirely on free
| Heroku dynos. I'm still kind of amazed by that.
| rubyist5eva wrote:
| Why did they not just start paying for Heroku?
| rekttrader wrote:
| They're part of the reason it's not free any more.
| gl-prod wrote:
| Well, Salesforce could have made the free dynos non-
| commercial only
| faitswulff wrote:
| Does anyone have a quick and dirty script to download the Git
| repo and data for all your Heroku apps?
| Aqua_Geek wrote:
| I've just been going through and cloning the repos via their
| command line tool: heroku git:clone --a <app
| name>
|
| If you have really old apps (e.g. on the bamboo stack or
| older), there is a plug-in that allows you to download the slug
| (as Git doesn't work with those old stacks).
| kirillzubovsky wrote:
| Thanks for the reminder! Could've lost a bunch of photos :) Also,
| it's interesting how little effort Heroku put into helping you
| upgrade. There's no one-click options, and instead it's a forest
| of choices and menus to jump through.
|
| By the way, one hack to not upgrading your app? Move your DBs to
| a single shared instance on Amazon, and then point Heroku apps to
| that one instance. Meanwhile, in Heroku just remove the Postgres
| addon. As long as it doesn't see a free instance, it doesn't
| complain.
| kirillzubovsky wrote:
| Looked into it a few seconds more and realized they've got a
| new "mini" plan, which is basically a free Dev plan, but
| costing 1 cent a month. I suppose this is a deliberate attempt
| to kill all the non-maintained projects, rather than a way to
| make money.
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