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kawesomekhan / covid-indoor

Online app, based on a mathematical model created by MIT professors Martin Z. Bazant and John Bush, designed to improve upon current social distancing guidelines.
https://indoor-covid-safety.herokuapp.com/
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Heroku is closing all free plans #83

Closed quinncomendant closed 1 year ago

quinncomendant commented 2 years ago

Heroku will no longer offer free hosting:

“… free dynos will be scaled down to 0 and hobby-dev databases will be deleted starting November 28, 2022.”

Is there a plan to pay to keep the COVID-19 Indoor Safety application online, or move it to a different free service (such as GCP Cloud Run, Render, Fly, or Railway)?

jlrjackson commented 2 years ago

I'm also interested to know whether the site will continue to be up or if it will be moved or mirrored somewhere else? I would be happy to contribute to a ko-fi or Patreon or such for hosting costs, since this is a useful tool.

kawesomekhan commented 1 year ago

Hey! Terribly sorry for the late reply but I've been using a paid dyno for the past couple of years. Some of that has been funded especially when the website was receiving a fair bit of media attention, but more recently I've scaled down and have been paying out of pocket.

@jlrjackson very kind of you to offer the support! A ko-fi/Patreon aren't things I've considered but I suppose it can't hurt to include somewhere.

I hope to keep this site running indefinitely. I don't foresee any issues except for the one item I do need to take care of, which is to upgrade from the Heroku-18 stack (currently deprecated and will reach end of life in April 2023). Hopefully I'll have some this weekend to take care of that.

Kasim