Any way to disable Ruby on Rails app hosted by Heroku for a while in order to stop monthly payments?

Question

I've got a website I created using Ruby on Rails and DNSimple hosting/management, deployed on Heroku. Since it's still not ready for production yet and I'm paying $20 monthly for the SSL endpoint, is there any way to take it offline for a few months in order to stop being charged monthly for it, without having to configure SSL for both Heroku and DNSimple plus re-deploy again once it's ready for public use? Even better would be if I could temporarily stop the DNSimple monthly payments as well ($8.00 a month) since the app won't even be hosted or running/accessed by anyone, if this is at all feasible?

Answer 1

Heroku charge per dyno hours, there is a free tier, anything that pass that is charged, to avoid being charged by Heroku you can reduce to one 1X Dyno and no Workers or Clocks or if you wanna take down your app you can reduce to 0 dynos.

You can reduce in the Heroku dashboard, to do so go to http://heroku.com , login, and select your application, once on the application click in edit and reduce the number of dynos to 1 or 0.

About the DNSimple you can cancel your subscription and active again when you need if you have used your trial. More info about cancel the DNSimple can be found here .

Answer 2

或者，您可以完全禁用DNSimple并将CloudFlare（ https://www.cloudflare.com ）用于SSL-它们有一个免费选项。

Answer 3

You can scale down your dynos and web workers to 0 to avoid getting charged for them. However, I think you'll still be charged for any paid addons such as SSL.