Although you didn't account for the pool of hours that your free-tier dyno has. This pool is limited to 550 hours per months. This seems big, but in fact it only represents a little more than 9 days. Largely before the end of the month though.
What this means is that by keeping the dyno constantly activated as you are suggesting, you will be running out of free dyno in 9 days.
If your application only has use for the first 9 days of each month this is a great solution though.
Worth noticing that you can increase this free-tier dyno pool by another 450 hours by adding a valid credit card. This will grant you a constant 16.5 days per month.
You better weight the pros and cons: sometimes, having a little more uptime is better than running out of free dyno and not having any uptime at all.
Just wanted to point that out but your technique is great for the other use-cases like a constant 9/16 days uptime per month.
We all make mistakes. I do too. Don't let it be a failure but a recall that there might be more things to dig into when the solution looks too simple.
Even if your solution does not work (we all know that now), your though process was good, and you even documented your solution. This can be a calling to ethical hacking. Of course, there was more to it and the Heroku documentation prooved it.
Next time you'll learn from this mistake and dig into every piece of information you can find deeper and I'm pretty sure you'll find some interesting things to share to us here on DEV.
Your solution looks promising.
Although you didn't account for the pool of hours that your free-tier dyno has. This pool is limited to 550 hours per months. This seems big, but in fact it only represents a little more than 9 days. Largely before the end of the month though.
What this means is that by keeping the dyno constantly activated as you are suggesting, you will be running out of free dyno in 9 days.
If your application only has use for the first 9 days of each month this is a great solution though.
Worth noticing that you can increase this free-tier dyno pool by another 450 hours by adding a valid credit card. This will grant you a constant 16.5 days per month.
You better weight the pros and cons: sometimes, having a little more uptime is better than running out of free dyno and not having any uptime at all.
Just wanted to point that out but your technique is great for the other use-cases like a constant 9/16 days uptime per month.
F, I didn't consider that 😅😅😅
Ig this article is pretty useless now
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You made a mistake, so what?
We all make mistakes. I do too. Don't let it be a failure but a recall that there might be more things to dig into when the solution looks too simple.
Even if your solution does not work (we all know that now), your though process was good, and you even documented your solution. This can be a calling to ethical hacking. Of course, there was more to it and the Heroku documentation prooved it.
Next time you'll learn from this mistake and dig into every piece of information you can find deeper and I'm pretty sure you'll find some interesting things to share to us here on DEV.
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Yuppp, I'm never ever going to post about anything without testing it myself
No matter how amazing it looks