Heroku Error -> "Free app running time quota exhausted" 🤦

[nelsonic]

https://dwylmail.herokuapp.com

heroku logs --tail

$7/month ... 💭

[nelsonic]

A potential (short-term) solution could be to scale up the dyno before test and scale it back down once tests pass.

Run the command:

heroku ps:type hobby

Output:

Scaling dynos on ⬢ dwylmail... done
type  size   qty  cost/mo
────  ─────  ───  ───────
web   Hobby  1    7

Confirmed via Web UI:

To scale back down:

heroku ps:type free

Output:

Scaling dynos on ⬢ dwylmail... done
type  size  qty  cost/mo
────  ────  ───  ───────
web   Free  1

Obviously it's lame to do this manually each time we run a script. 💭

Given that Email is core to our infrastructure, it might be time to just migrate it to AWS EC2: dwyl/aws-ses-lambda#21

[tsangaris]

Had the same issue and migrated all my sites to Vercel. Hopefully, there is no such cap there.

[nelsonic]

Yeah, Vercel is a good option for JS apps and they have a more liberal fair-use policy. 👍
This App is built with Elixir so I don't think Vercel is an option for now. 😞

[th0mas]

fly.io could also be a good option and have a generous free tier. They have an option to import apps from Heroku as well: https://fly.io/heroku