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Any suggestions for alternatives to Nodejitsu?

I run 10 of my bots there, and I love it as a service, but they jacked up the price significantly. I would have to pay $90/mo to run 10 bots now, versus something like $21/mo before. I understand why: they're providing some powerful hardware behind each of their 'drones' -- but I don't need that kind of power for individual twitter bots which essentially just post to an API on a setInterval every 15 minutes.

Things I've considered:

• Condensing all my twitter bots into a single drone/app. This is doable, but is a lot of engineering work, particularly if I want to keep them all in their own git repos.
• Firing up a Linode or similar and just run them all there. Unfortunately this involves being the admin for a server, which I've done before and I don't really have the time to do. I vastly prefer handing off a JS file to a service and have them handle it, notify me if things go down, etc.

Seems like I misunderstood Heroku's pricing tiers (it's one free dyno PER APP, not per account, so I could in theory run each of my bots for free). Trying that now.

Nodejitsu does offer free hosting for open source apps, but they limit it to one open source app per user, so that wouldn't work for my 10-ish open source apps.

...I just moved one of my bots to Heroku. Took about 20 minutes, and I expect the next one will go faster. I'm pretty impressed, and it does seem that for something low-impact like a single twitter bot, it should be free to host there.

Okay, I ended up migrating everything to Heroku. Their "1 free drone per app" pricing is perfect for twitter bots: aka, free.

Nodejitsu use to have full support for this. Sorry.