Paid Add-ons now Available
We have just flicked the switch and you can now provision paid add-ons for your AppHarbor applications. You can also upgrade already provisioned add-ons from free plan to paid plans.
When we launched add-ons, only free plans were available. This was because we wanted to iron out any kinks in the add-ons and in the provisioning flow, before taking your money. We are excited that AppHarbor users now have full access to the powerful add-ons in the AppHarbor add-on catalog.
Prices quoted in the catalog are per-month and per-application that you provision the add-on to. Prices are pro-rated for months where the add-on was not provisioned the entire month. To provision or upgrade to a paid add-on, you have to provide a valid credit card in the same way as when trialling scaling
We are aware that add-ons can nominally be shared by multiple applications if you are willing to copy around configuration variables. This practice is not recommended and not supported. This is because add-on providers may at any time update the configuration variables for a provisioned add-on. This may for happen, for example, if an add-on provider's server crashes and your application needs to be made aware of what new server to use. Applications with configuration variables copy-pasted from another application will not get the new configuration values until you actively copy-paste and push the updates.
The Sequelizer add-on has had a 10GB trial plan since AppHarbor's inception. That will now become a paid plan offered for $10/month. If you have provisioned 10GB Sequelizer add-ons and your account has a valid credit card, we will start charging effective December 1. Accounts with no credit card will have a grace period lasting until December 1, after which we will downgrade databases to the free plan (20MB). If the database contains too much data to be downgraded, it will be placed in read-only mode. If you have Sequelizer databases provisioned to any of your AppHarbor applications, please verify that they are provisioned with the plans you want.
Paid add-ons marks the second step of AppHarbor beginning to take money for the services we provide (the first step was taking credit card details to enable scaling). Your input in this process is greatly valued and we encourage comments on this post or emails to support@appharbor.com if you have thoughts on add-on pricing or want to let us know what you would pay for AppHarbor deployment and scaling.
Note that some add-on providers in the AppHarbor catalog do not currently support changing plans. For those add-ons, you will have to remove the add-on from your application and then reprovision it with the plan you want.
