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Seems like they're walking back from the previous announcement, which said they'd give 12 hours of non-sleep time per day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9295874

There's a huge difference between 24 hours/day and 18 hours/day, but I don't think there's such a big difference going from 18->12, so I don't think many people will care about this improvement.

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We looked at the numbers and it's actually a very, very small percentage of applications that run between 18 and 24 hrs per day.

Eighteen hours a day is enough to keep your app running from 9AM to 3AM every day, and unless your application has a global reach, it should naturally equilibrate into a comfortable place.

We are asking that if you want 24x7 wake-time that you pay for a hobby dyno, but if you can let your application sleep when you do, you won't see any difference at all.

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