| I have been using AppHarbor for about 5 months now, having deployed 2 very different applications to it. The first is my company website which admittedly doesn't get a whole load of traffic and survives completely on their free instance, free 20mb database and a custom domain name. The second is a client's website with 2 instances, a 10GB database and several other addons. With my first, I feel the new pricing puts me off, the site is low traffic and doesn't need a lot of resources to run. I could pay the new $10 per month for a custom domain name or I could just stick the site on a cheap shared hosting package, I use a provider that charges me $65 per year for 20+ domain names on it. Although I do get easier deployment, building etc with AppHarbor its not a compelling story as I don't change my company site that much to justify it. With my second website, I found it much easier as the client want to move fast and AppHarbor's build and seamless deploy really helped as the client could refresh the page and see the changes. AppHarbor really works well with this client and he has come to appreciate that although it is more expensive than say shared or VPS that the uptime is better and it costs him less money as I don't bother charging for 2 minute changes that I can do quickly and push to AppHarbor. Overall, I have mixed feelings about these pricing changes, especially as I started looking at what Heroku is offering. I plan to play around over the weekend with NancyFX, Mono and Heroku. Perhaps that combination would work well with my smaller clients. |