I use both. I have a side project deployed to Heroku and it's fine there, but it costs me about $45/month. The same project would often have a better response t

I use both. I have a side project deployed to Heroku and it's fine there, but it costs me about $45/month. The same project would often have a better response time (when heroku sleeps the dyno) if it were hosted on DO, and both would require no maintenance (I haven't edited a line of code in ~2 years). It's a django/postgres setup, nothing special, and would run on the smallest DO instance. I'm just too lazy to switch it over, honestly. I don't think it's a difference between "building it myself" and "using someone else's solution." It's about an hour of setup, maybe 2 if I encounter headaches. I probably ought to do it, given it'll earn me $35-40 per month forever.