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True, 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 ago
  Which starts around $80/month. There is still a hole there.
  • riffraff 15y ago
    but a reserved instance for a year is $227, which is not far from $15 a month.
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    • jshen 15y ago
      Thanks, I missed the reserved instances somehow.
    • jbarham 15y ago
      This 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 ago
        oops, of course, sorry for this
    • dangrossman 15y ago
      The $227 buys you a lower hourly rate, it doesn't buy you use of an instance for a year.