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.
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
#22I 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.
Then new dev plans support hstore: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/4/26/heroku_postg...
I'm kind of in a no-mans land of Heroku data plans - until today!
Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans
#23Congrats to the Heroku DoD on launching this long-awaited price point! Can we create Crane followers of a larger master database yet? That would be really useful - keeping a cheap, eventually-consistent replica around for backup and analytics.
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#24Development Stage: Use the free plan.
MVP Stage: When I have an MVP that I'd like to show people and get feedback on, I'm not sure if I should stay with the free plan, or if I need a paid plan at this point.
Gaining Traction: Still low overall volume, but consistent users. What is the cheapest paid plan that works for this stage? Is it the $15 plan, or the $50 plan?
Increasing Traffic: At this point, it's a little more clear that you choose add-ons to match your specific needs.
I would love it if someone could clarify what kinds of loads each of these plans could reasonably be expected to handle.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then new dev plans support hstore: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/4/26/heroku_postg...
I need a bit more than the approx 5MB of data - much more, but currently less than 20GB. I'm kind of in a no-mans land of Heroku data plans - until today!
But what is the use case for a dev databases with 'much more than 5MB of data' ?
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#27So if the plans are named after increasingly deadly things the crane is the least deadly? I guess I could see that.
That's right. They are all Japanese things in increasing order of deadliness.
With that said I'm not sure how squid managed to be more dangerous than a kappa. >Kappa are usually seen as mischievous troublemakers. Their pranks range from the relatively innocent, such as loudly passing gas or looking up women's kimonos, to the malevolent, such as drowning people and animals, kidnapping children, and raping women
~wikipedia
Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then new dev plans support hstore: https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/4/26/heroku_postg...
I need a bit more than the approx 5MB of data - much more, but currently less than 20GB. I'm kind of in a no-mans land of Heroku data plans - until today!
My dev machine has a much smaller set of data, but on Heroku, I run stage servers with reasonable amounts of real life data that I need for final testing
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#29https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/migrating-data-between...
Re: Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans
#30Tried to set up a dev database from the dashboard; got a generic fail message. Told me why when I tried to add it from the CLI (my acct wasn't verified), may want to make this clear on the dashboard as well.