pricing page for reference: <a href="https://www.heroku.com/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.heroku.com/pricing</a><p>I'm sure there was massive abuse. All you needed was a script that regularly pings (well HTTP request) your dyno and it would never suspend. The next best alternative would have been free trial period. I have a friend who does Wordpress hosting and the stories I hear about their abuse cases on the free tier are scary.<p>Heroku's free dynos still serve their purpose and are good enough for prototyping, testing and (during office hours) staging.<p>In my opinion it was the right decision.<p>(Charging $20/month for hosting an existing SSL certificate is too expensive though. <a href="https://addons.heroku.com/ssl" rel="nofollow">https://addons.heroku.com/ssl</a>)
Pretty annoying that your website will be <i>completely down</i> for 6 hours a day.<p>Huginn can no longer be hosted on Heroku, which is making it harder for new users to try it out.