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Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

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Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

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Post by aculver »

salimmadjd wrote: post #7

Heroku is really great to get your started if you don't want to worry about managing infrastructure. However, you're paying a major premium for that and you need to have an exit plan from the beginning incase you grow too big and the costs no longer make sense.

I agree with everything you said, except that I don't think you need to spend any time working on an exit plan until the day you realize you're paying "too much" (whatever that means to you) for the benefit you're receiving from their managed hosting. I recommend: Launch on Heroku. Reevaluate that choice on success.

Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

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Post by 100k »

mshafrir wrote: post #9

Will be interesting to see what Heroku ends up rolling out for the higher-priced dev database (comparable to the current 20 GB plan).

They've said they'll release something "at a comparable price point" to the $15/month shared plan. Hopefully the $50/month database isn't it as that seems high for hobby projects that outgrow the small dev database.

Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

#13

Post by Estragon »

aculver wrote: post #11
salimmadjd wrote: post #7

Heroku is really great to get your started if you don't want to worry about managing infrastructure. However, you're paying a major premium for that and you need to have an exit plan from the beginning incase you grow too big and the costs no longer make sense.

I agree with everything you said, except that I don't think you need to spend any time working on an exit plan until the day you realize you're paying "too much" (whatever that means to you) for the benefit you're receiving from their managed hosting. I recommend: Launch on Heroku. Reevaluate that choice on success.

Surely designing with the eventual migration in mind will reduce the pain in the end, though.

Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

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Post by WALoeIII »

Estragon wrote: post #13
aculver wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with everything you said, except that I don't think you need to spend any time working on an exit plan until the day you realize you're paying "too much" (whatever that means to you) for the benefit you're receiving from their managed hosting. I recommend: Launch on Heroku. Reevaluate that choice on success.

Surely designing with the eventual migration in mind will reduce the pain in the end, though.

YAGNI - your first problem is getting customers.

Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

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Post by freeformz »

Timothee wrote: post #10

Very cool. I've been looking at spatial databases and the fact that I could get MongoDB running on a free plan (e.g. with MongoLab and MongoHQ) made me go that way. (for now) PostGIS has been available on Heroku's dedicated DBs ( https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/is-postgis-available ), but the $200/month was a bit high for early stage. $50 is much more manageable and I might be looking towards Postgres + PostGIS…

For now PostGIS is not available on the new crane/kappa plans....

Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

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Post by taligent »

Estragon wrote: post #13
aculver wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with everything you said, except that I don't think you need to spend any time working on an exit plan until the day you realize you're paying "too much" (whatever that means to you) for the benefit you're receiving from their managed hosting. I recommend: Launch on Heroku. Reevaluate that choice on success.

Surely designing with the eventual migration in mind will reduce the pain in the end, though.

I am actually going through this right now as we saw our EC2 instances start doing 2-10 second response times under little load. So currently migrating to a dedicated server.

What is is found an interesting product called VCider which allows you to create mini private clouds. This might be something to look into using from day one to help with eventual migration. It is free up to 8 servers.

Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

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Post by taligent »

WALoeIII wrote: post #14
Estragon wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely designing with the eventual migration in mind will reduce the pain in the end, though.

YAGNI - your first problem is getting customers.

But your customers aren't going to be happy if your site is slow whilst your bleeding money.

Heroku/EC2 are fantastic for what they are but quite pricy.

Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

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Post by tomfakes »

I really like this!

I'm building an app that will eventually use hstore for data. I say 'eventually', because I'm currently using serialized columns on the $15/month shared plan, and hstore is not yet supported.

At $50/month, this is cheap enough for me to use as a staging server or as a pre-release server to get hstore across my entire environment.

Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans

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Post by Estragon »

WALoeIII wrote: post #14
Estragon wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely designing with the eventual migration in mind will reduce the pain in the end, though.

YAGNI - your first problem is getting customers.

Absolutely agree that that is the first priority, but there are many factors you can keep in mind during development without slowing it down much, and this is one of them.
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