Comments on: Why IronWorker is Better than Heroku Workers / Delayed Job

By: Chad Arimura

Chad Arimura — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:16:01 +0000

Thanks! We learned that as well after the fact.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:26:24 +0000

It’s also worth pointing out that 24 is not the max for dynos, at least not on the cedar stack. Last I read it’s 99 and you can contact Heroku to remove that cap.

By: Martin Wawrusch

Martin Wawrusch — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:53:25 +0000

That is true, but most people keep them running permanently, so in the end you pay for ~700 hours per worker per month, whereas with simple worker you just pay for the actual processing time.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:41:09 +0000

After reading this, I looked at my Heroku bill from last month. They pro-rate workers and dyno’s to the second.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/queueing:
“Workers are charged at the same rate as dynos: $0.05 per hour, prorated to the second.”