I didn't find a blog post yet, but when logged in to heroku, they announce new pricing, linking to this page: https://www.heroku.com/private/beta-pricing (which needs a signin).
Before the free tier allowed you to run 1 dyno for free all month (going down if there is no traffic). Now the hobby tier only allows you to run half a month, or you pay $7/month.
Yup. I am not that excited about the changes. I run a production web app on 2 dynos with 1 standard PostgreSQL DB and SSL, and my bill is over $100 per month. I am looking to moving over to DigitalOcean, where an equivalent setup starts at only $20 per month.
Cachet is dropping Heroku support, partially due to this change in pricing. <a href="https://blog.cachethq.io/dropping-native-heroku-support/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.cachethq.io/dropping-native-heroku-support/</a>
I saw this posted the other day, but I still have one unanswered question. The free tier is now ~350 hours/ month. Dynos go to sleep after 1 hour. Does that mean an app that's used a few times a day will be free, because sleeping dynos don't accrue charges? If your app starts to get enough use that it's staying awake continuously, you'll have to start paying for it?
I can't seem to be able to get to that page, even when I'm signed into my Heroku account. When I try to go to the above link, I'm instantly redirected to <a href="https://www.heroku.com/home" rel="nofollow">https://www.heroku.com/home</a>. Anyone else observing the same thing?