<story><title>Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours</title><url>https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/5/18/announcing_heroku_free_ssl_beta_and_flexible_dyno_hours</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josegonzalez</author><text>Dokku maintainer here.&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great idea. Companies have to sell a product in order to survive. At work, we pay a small amount of money for the 20 or so applications we deploy to heroku (nothing critical, just your run-of-the-mill chatbot&amp;#x2F;static landing page) and I&amp;#x27;m impressed with the product they sell for such a small amount of money.&lt;p&gt;Here is some of what Heroku handles for you:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  - cluster scaling (docker swarm?)
  - resource scaling (docker-options?)
  - centralized logging (docker&amp;#x2F;rsyslog + papertrail?)
  - metrics support (diamond&amp;#x2F;collectd&amp;#x2F;dd-agent + external graphite cluster?)
  - web ui and external api (lol)
  - easy integration with tons of services (plugins&amp;#x2F;manual work?)
  - not having to maintain your own servers (hire an ops person?)
  - backups (cron + s3&amp;#x2F;dropbox&amp;#x2F;idk?)
  - security!!! (cron apt-get?)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Definitely worth taking a critical look at whether or not the applications you are running on Heroku aren&amp;#x27;t providing at least $7 a month in value to you, as the above doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily come cheap when you roll your own.</text></comment>
<story><title>Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours</title><url>https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/5/18/announcing_heroku_free_ssl_beta_and_flexible_dyno_hours</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>&amp;quot;Flexible dyno hours&amp;quot; is some nice marketing spin. 550 hours a month works out to one application running 18 hours a day, whereas previously you could have an unlimited number of apps running up to 18 hours per day.</text></comment>