[geoffharcourt]

That's an excellent point. The $84/year tier also allows users to keep an app always on without needing a second dyno, which used to be the requirement to prevent apps from sleeping.

[ryanSrich]

I used to just ping my sites on the free to tier to keep them alive using uptime robot. I wonder if that was against the TOS?

[hanley]

I have a handful of little apps that I do that with. Too bad that won't work anymore, they aren't worth $84/yr each to me to have them running 24/7.

[kentt]

The big change is that you can't do that on the free tier. The free tier has a maximum of 12 hours uptime per day.

[pvh]

Yep.