title: Heroku how many apps on a dyno
body: <p>I'm running my blog on an Heroku dyno, and too many times my users have to wait almost half a minute for my blog to respond. There are ways to prevent Heroku from idling: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5480337/easy-way-to-prevent-heroku-idling">Easy way to prevent Heroku idling?</a> Most obvious is to ping the server every minute or so.</p>
  
  <p>But it seems those methods are against Heroku's TOS, if I check the pricing page: <a href="https://www.heroku.com/pricing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.heroku.com/pricing</a> (see MUST SLEEP 6 HOURS IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD). And because Pingdom does costs me some money as well, I'm thinking of paying $7 dollars a month for the Hobby package. But how many apps can you run with that package? Cause I always run one app per dyno, but if I have to pay $7 per app... That seems too much.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone who knows there is a way to run multiple apps on a dyno? Or is hiring a server at DigitalOcean with NodeJS a better choice, for example?</p>