<story><title>Heroku shouldn’t be sandbagging paying customers who have low-traffic apps</title><url>http://blog.3solarmasses.com/post/41164909691/heroku-shouldnt-be-sandbagging-paying-customers-who</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bgentry</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I’ve come to the conclusion that Heroku must be using adaptive processes to sandbag us. For example, to save on their resources, they must be creating static caches of the pages which are being requested from these cron pings. They could avoid loading my whole app back into memory with a trick like this. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I see no other way for these pings to be successful and my app to still have bad initial load times when it is not visited for a while.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;You are incorrect. We idle single-dyno apps that have not recently received requests. We do no caching, unless you are running an old bamboo app and are therefore going through varnish. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-idling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-idling&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Heroku shouldn’t be sandbagging paying customers who have low-traffic apps</title><url>http://blog.3solarmasses.com/post/41164909691/heroku-shouldnt-be-sandbagging-paying-customers-who</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redguava</author><text>Heroku don&apos;t hide this, it&apos;s in their documentation &lt;a href=&quot;https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-idling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-idling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Imagine how many free apps are created that are never used again.  Should Heroku really devote resources to these apps?  I think it&apos;s perfectly reasonable to idle them after a period of inactivity.  If they didn&apos;t, they would need more resources and ultimately the customers would be paying for that.  They aren&apos;t a charity, they are a business.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s pretty simple, if you don&apos;t want your app to idle out after 1 hour of inactivity, buy a dyno for $35 p/month.</text></comment>