> I guess the bigger lesson though is that Heroku should really be a last resort option for projects these days. Maybe people shouldn't, I don't know because I

> I guess the bigger lesson though is that Heroku should really be a last resort option for projects these days. Maybe people shouldn't, I don't know because I've never used it, but ... > I learned my lesson about not doing an offsite backup regularly. This is the bigger lesson, no matter whether you are using third party database hosting, or hosting yourself, whether it's a NoSQL database or a SQL one. Once the data is gone, its gone.