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Since the dblink extension is available even on the free dev plan, is anything stopping you from creating a bunch of dev databases and linking them together to
by exogen 14y ago
Since the dblink extension is available even on the free dev plan, is anything stopping you from creating a bunch of dev databases and linking them together to overcome size restrictions? Sounds kinda fun, although there will of course be concerns over performance, integrity constraints, etc.
- the1 14y agodo you have 20 credit cards for 100MB of free database?
- ceejayoz 14y agoPayPal lets you generate one-time use credit card numbers, don't they?
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- k33l0r 14y agoOnly in the US.
- exogen 14y agoYou can add as many free dev databases as you want with a single account AFAIK. You aren't limited to one per app, account, or plan.
- andypants 14y agoNo, heroku has a postgres service where you can create as many free dev databases as you want. These have no size restriction, just a 10,000 row limit and 0MB cache, as well as some other feature limitations.
- pearkes 14y agoI recall hearing folks at Heroku talk about this before - basically the message was yes, there are many ways to abuse the free service but they rarely have people _actually_ doing it. Kind of interesting, as it would be pretty trivial to use many single dynos (with shared caching, db) in one account for one application.
- exogen 14y agoI love that they technically let people do this, even though it seems like a "loophole" ripe for abuse. It's a nice attitude. (For those who don't know – Heroku gives you 750 free dyno-hours per app per month, forever. This is in contrast to AWS, which gives you 750 free instance-hours per month per account and only for the first year, AFAIK.)
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoIt's worth noting that Heroku silently spins down free-level apps that aren't in use (restarting them on a request), so they aren't necessarily consuming all 750hrs of machine time on every free app.