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My biggest complaint with Heroku is that they don't have a database offering between $15/month and $200/month. This addition to app engine makes them more appe
by jshen 15y ago
My biggest complaint with Heroku is that they don't have a database offering between $15/month and $200/month.
This addition to app engine makes them more appealing than heroku at this point.
- andypants 15y agoNothing has been said on pricing yet. It's free while it's still in developer preview. Pricing will be revealed later. But even if it ends up being a 'mess' like app engine's pricing situation, it should be much easier to move onto another platform.
- matan_a 15y agoTrue, but since they sit on AWS, you can just use Amazon RDS with your Heroku app on a small instance and be just fine.
- jshen 15y agoWhich starts around $80/month. There is still a hole there.
- riffraff 15y agobut a reserved instance for a year is $227, which is not far from $15 a month.
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- jshen 15y agoThanks, I missed the reserved instances somehow.
- jbarham 15y agoThis is misleading. The reservation fee for a small instance is $227.50 annually (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/) but you still pay an hourly rate to run it, albeit a lower rate than for a non-reserved instance. Running a small reserved instance for a year costs $227.50 + ($0.03 x 24 x 365) => $490.3/year or $40.86/month. (This is in the US East region.)
- riffraff 15y agooops, of course, sorry for this
- dangrossman 15y agoThe $227 buys you a lower hourly rate, it doesn't buy you use of an instance for a year.
- buff-a 15y agoCloud SQL is available free of charge for now, and we will publish pricing at least 30 days before charging for it. Yeah. We know how well that went with GAE.
- jshen 15y agoI'm convinced they were giving it away at a loss before. Now it's priced the same as similar services which makes sense. Obviously it sucked for the people that caught in it, but the expectations are properly set this time around.