> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year.
Inactive for over a year? That's really interesting, because I was a paid Heroku customer for multiple years, but am no longer. I don't even have resources running, but I do have a few apps sitting in the dashboard. I guess I'm fair game for culling, despite being a paid customer in the past and not taking up very many resources.
> Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services.
I understand this from a business perspective, but wow this sucks. There's a lot of projects hosted on Heroku that are just SPA-like demos of OSS tools -- things like theme demos for static site generators and the like. Sure, these are all good candidates for the myriad of other hosts that exist, but I'm sure that a lot will go down and linkrot will creep into the OSS ecosystem. Not a lot of people are eager to migrate projects off on someone else's schedule.
I wish Salesforce the best of luck with Heroku, but this sounds like a "we care about the numbers" move. I hope this means that they actually invest in their product.
Late November is a crazy timeline. I have my personal website, wedding website, and tons of other projects on Heroku free stuff. So now it’s $7-$16/mo per app… thousands of dollars per year. Which is a reasonable price, I guess. It was probably entitled of me to think I could host so many websites for free.
…except now I have to migrate them in fucking 2 months of weekends or everything will be deleted?! Thanks for ruining my weekend plans, Salesforce
I haven't used Heroku in a while, but don't they rely on git? You shouldn't be losing anything specific to re-deploying your service. Otherwise, they have no obligation to maintain/run anything that isn't being paid for.
Inactive for over a year? That's really interesting, because I was a paid Heroku customer for multiple years, but am no longer. I don't even have resources running, but I do have a few apps sitting in the dashboard. I guess I'm fair game for culling, despite being a paid customer in the past and not taking up very many resources.
> Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services.
I understand this from a business perspective, but wow this sucks. There's a lot of projects hosted on Heroku that are just SPA-like demos of OSS tools -- things like theme demos for static site generators and the like. Sure, these are all good candidates for the myriad of other hosts that exist, but I'm sure that a lot will go down and linkrot will creep into the OSS ecosystem. Not a lot of people are eager to migrate projects off on someone else's schedule.
I wish Salesforce the best of luck with Heroku, but this sounds like a "we care about the numbers" move. I hope this means that they actually invest in their product.