At the end of this month (June 2020) I ran out of Heroku app hours for the first time. I have updated the app locations in the App Hub.

I have been hosting all of my apps through Heroku for months and this is the first time I hit the 1000 hours limit. I knew it was going to happen, but had incorrectly assumed that their paid tier would be an overall upgrade to apps I had- turns out the up-charge only upgrades a single app. I have over 10 apps on Heroku, so paying for all of them was not an option.

For now, I am paying for my backend to have the paid upgrade. I have migrated a few of my Angular apps to GitHub Pages. I do not like GitHub pages as much as Heroku as it feels a bit more hodge-podge to me. For example, in deploying 5 or so apps to GitHub Pages, twice I had to delete my first attempt and try again to get it to work just because of some invisible error. This was all a massive headache. I was very pleased to have all my apps on one service, and now they’re spread out far more than I’d like. I’ll see how the hours this week go, long-term I will probably find another solution.

I also migrated my Asset Library this week. I wanted the Library contents to be private, and the GitHub Pages free tier does not allow a private repo (more pain with GitHub Pages, I guess that’s the theme). I now have the Asset Reader as a GitHub pages site which reads from a static Netlify site hosting the actual library contents. Needless to say, more headaches. I think I’m in a better spot now on all accounts though.