That is a sweet spot: lots of people need a full service, but smaller PostgreSQL database.
Off topic, but what I would really like to see: I have several long term tiny web apps hosted for free at Heroku. I understand that their costs for hosting these is minimal because unpaid for web apps get swapped out, and thus there is a several second loading request time when they are 'woken up.'
I would love an inexpensive "1 dyno" paid for plan positioned between the 1 dyno free plan and the two dyno paid plan for $35. The 1 dyno paid plan, at about $15/month (or maybe it shoult be 1/2 of $35?) would I bet be popular. I would like all of my apps to be always on, even the little toy/side projects.
I love how Pagoda Box (a PaaS for PHP) solved this; you can "caffeinate" you application for $8 per month to keep if from sleeping, instead of adding another instance (comparable to Heroku's Dyno).
This is a bit hacky, but you can set up pingdom (or new relic) to ping your (toy/side project) apps every few minutes. This essentially ensures that you never have to wait for heroku's spin up time.
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That is a sweet spot: lots of people need a full service, but smaller PostgreSQL database.
Off topic, but what I would really like to see: I have several long term tiny web apps hosted for free at Heroku. I understand that their costs for hosting these is minimal because unpaid for web apps get swapped out, and thus there is a several second loading request time when they are 'woken up.'
I would love an inexpensive "1 dyno" paid for plan positioned between the 1 dyno free plan and the two dyno paid plan for $35. The 1 dyno paid plan, at about $15/month (or maybe it shoult be 1/2 of $35?) would I bet be popular. I would like all of my apps to be always on, even the little toy/side projects.
I love how Pagoda Box (a PaaS for PHP) solved this; you can "caffeinate" you application for $8 per month to keep if from sleeping, instead of adding another instance (comparable to Heroku's Dyno).
http://help.pagodabox.com/customer/portal/articles/438692
This is a bit hacky, but you can set up pingdom (or new relic) to ping your (toy/side project) apps every few minutes. This essentially ensures that you never have to wait for heroku's spin up time.
cf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5480337/easy-way-to-preve...