Heroku tutorial's future

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Heroku will stop offering a free tier starting 2022-11-28.

Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year.

Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users.

Our Heroku tutorial should be migrated to a different provider, ideally not requiring a credit card for easier testing for people without one or those who do not want to provide their credit card.

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Possible Alternatives

• Railway.app - the trial tier does not require a credit card. Limited to 500h a month.
• Render.com - sleeps after 15 minutes, 30s spin-up

Not ideal for tutorial purposes

• Fly.io - requires a credit card but has a tutorial for those looking to migrate from Heroku: https://fly.io/launch/heroku Docs: https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/speed-up-a-heroku-app

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Possible collections on HackerNews[1] and Reddit[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32599398
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/wxhou9/heroku_ending_free_tier/