Heroku Announces Plans To Eliminate Free Plans, Blaming 'Fraud and Abuse' (techcrunch.com) 9
After offering them for over a decade, Heroku announced this week that it will eliminate all of its free services -- pushing users to paid plans. From a report: Starting November 28, the Salesforce-owned cloud platform as a service will stop providing free product plans and shut down free data services and soon (on October 26) will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. In a blog post, Bob Wise, Heroku general manager and Salesforce EVP, blamed "abuse" on the demise of the free services, which span the free plans for Heroku Dynos and Heroku Postgres as well as the free plan for Heroku Data for Redis.
[...] Wise went on to note that Heroku will be announcing a student program at Salesforce's upcoming Dreamforce conference in September, but the details remain a mystery at this point. For the uninitiated, Heroku allows programmers to build, run and scale apps across programming languages including Java, PHP, Scala and Go. Salesforce acquired the company for $212 million in 2010 and subsequently introduced support for Node.js and Clojure and Heroku for Facebook, a package to simplify the process of deploying Facebook apps on Heroku infrastructure. Heroku claims on its website that it's been used to develop 13 million apps to date.
[...] Wise went on to note that Heroku will be announcing a student program at Salesforce's upcoming Dreamforce conference in September, but the details remain a mystery at this point. For the uninitiated, Heroku allows programmers to build, run and scale apps across programming languages including Java, PHP, Scala and Go. Salesforce acquired the company for $212 million in 2010 and subsequently introduced support for Node.js and Clojure and Heroku for Facebook, a package to simplify the process of deploying Facebook apps on Heroku infrastructure. Heroku claims on its website that it's been used to develop 13 million apps to date.
TANSTAAFL (Score:2)
Seriously.
Weren't all the druggies told that the first hit was free?
Re: (Score:2)
I think that only happened in afternoon anti-drug television programs during the Reagan administration.
Fraud? (Score:3)
How can there be fraud on a free service? Abuse, sure.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Maybe it was used as a malware platform?
I mean, "13 million apps" - it would be impossible for zero of them to be accessory to fraud.
Re: Fraud? (Score:2)
If they allowed the general internet or even just other users to share and download code, it could've been used to trick programmers into adding malware laced code to their programs.
Ironic (Score:5, Funny)
Why we can't have nice things (Score:2)
"We need our bOtNeT extortion rings and bItCoIn mining rigz because we want more money for me, and we will take advantage of someone else's hardware to do it! And if this causes a cloud computing provider to shed it's free users, oh well! We got ours!"
And then people wonder why so many are being so rough on the little ha}{orz , wanting them to end up in PMITA prison or get strung up on the nearest lamp post.