How to stop a heroku server?

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I have a staging server hosted on heroku, I just want to bring it down, but not destroy the app. How can I do it? Do I have any command like 'heroku stop' like 'heroku restart' for restarting?

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Is there a way to automate the server to turn off itself when it exceeds the 750 hr free usage?

Actually I don't want the server so I am trying to stop it, or leave it for the free hours.

24*31=744, so as long as you have 1 web dyno it'll always be free. No need to stop it. — Mischa, Feb 06 '12 at 06:51
I have rake tasks, scheduler mailers, crons etc, so It exceeds 750.. Also few rake tasks are running like 5 hours or so which is supposed to be ended in 10 mins.. — n00b, Feb 06 '12 at 07:01
The pricing page implies you can set the number of web dynos to 0. — Eden Townsend, Feb 06 '12 at 08:10
You can always put something irrelevant in the Procfile so it doesn't launch your rails app/workers/crons, etc.. or enable the maintenance mode — fuzzyalej, Feb 06 '12 at 08:30
checkout http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2811453/how-to-stop-an-app-on-heroku — Sandip Ransing, Feb 06 '12 at 13:58
You can also restart it - http://stackoverflow.com/q/14612695/631619 — Michael Durrant, Sep 11 '14 at 01:49

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '12 at 09:04

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You can scale individual non-web processes down to zero quite happily:

$ heroku ps:scale worker=0
$ heroku ps:scale resque=0
etc...

and web to 1:

$ heroku ps:scale web=1

As Mischa says, you get one free dyno running, so leave your 1 web dyno running (I'm not sure you can stop the last web process)

answered Feb 06 '12 at 09:04

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in fact you can. With heroku's new procfile, apps aren't limited to web processes and are allowed to remove them altogether if they're not needed. – leonardoborges Feb 06 '12 at 09:47
Indeed - but that requires a redeploy in order to stop. – Neil Middleton Feb 06 '12 at 10:27

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 09 '12 at 05:07

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You can put it under maintenance, which stops it but doesn't delete it:

heroku maintenance:on

More info: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/maintenance-mode

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answered Feb 17 '12 at 22:44

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Not sure if this exactly helps. From their page `"Enabling or disabling maintenance mode generally doesn’t alter running dynos. Web dynos continue to run as before"` – domino Aug 11 '12 at 15:33

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '12 at 04:42

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Login to the account, and click on the resource and then bring down the dyno count to 0 and the save. Now you can check by trying to open the site. It will be down.

answered Feb 07 '12 at 04:42

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@NeilMiddleton how do you stop Cedar then? – quantumpotato Jun 23 '14 at 20:12

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 27 '20 at 14:08

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Easily disable/enable the App by going to your Heroku dashboard ==> resource tab the rest is on the picture below:

answered Sep 27 '20 at 14:08

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