How is it possible to use 1000 Heroku Dyno hours in one month?

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I am all set to launch my app and its backend is Django and hosted on Heroku.

As per the Heroku website I will get free 1000 dyno hours but what are these hours, I mean maximum number of hours in a month is 744 so how does it work?

Is it based on number of users using the app or something else?

user_354577 · Answer

As per the Heroku website I will get free 1000 dyno hours but what are these hours, I mean maximum number of hours in a month is 744 so how does it work?

Apps on Heroku can use more than one dyno:

Some sites might want more than one web dyno to handle lots of traffic
Some might run scheduled jobs, which run on separate one-off dynos
Some might have background workers

Those hours all add up.

How is it possible to use 1000 Heroku Dyno hours in one month?

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