From e9e7fb9641e1ab1440193e8c11e5672b7d655ee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Krypton Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 13:36:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Heroku is no longer free --- .../resources/guides/python-guides/vps-services.md | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/pydis_site/apps/content/resources/guides/python-guides/vps-services.md b/pydis_site/apps/content/resources/guides/python-guides/vps-services.md index 00c6bfac1..df20395b7 100644 --- a/pydis_site/apps/content/resources/guides/python-guides/vps-services.md +++ b/pydis_site/apps/content/resources/guides/python-guides/vps-services.md @@ -42,17 +42,3 @@ While these may seem like nice and free services, it has a lot more caveats than - They use a shared IP for everything running on the service. This one is important - if someone is running a user bot on their service and gets banned, everyone on that IP will be banned. Including you. - -### Heroku -- Bots are not what the platform is designed for. Heroku is designed to provide web servers (like Django, Flask, etc). This is why they give you a domain name and open a port on their local emulator. - -- Heroku's environment is heavily containerized, making it significantly underpowered for a standard use case. - -- Heroku's environment is volatile. In order to handle the insane amount of users trying to use it for their own applications, Heroku will dispose your environment every time your application dies unless you pay. - -- Heroku has minimal system dependency control. If any of your Python requirements need C bindings (such as PyNaCl - binding to libsodium, or lxml binding to libxml), they are unlikely to function properly, if at all, in a native - environment. As such, you often need to resort to adding third-party buildpacks to facilitate otherwise normal - CPython extension functionality. (This is the reason why voice doesn't work natively on heroku) - -- Heroku only offers a limited amount of time on their free programme for your applications. If you exceed this limit, which you probably will, they'll shut down your application until your free credit resets.