> Each new staging environment still required DNS and CDN configuration - not difficult, but not automatic either. The team also took on responsibility for serv

> Each new staging environment still required DNS and CDN configuration - not difficult, but not automatic either. The team also took on responsibility for server monitoring, security updates, and handling any infrastructure issues themselves - operational overhead that Heroku had previously covered. And while Hetzner's price-performance is exceptional, its limited presence in the US was a consideration; for this staging workload, it wasn't an issue, but it's a factor for production services targeting US users. If you factor in salaries, I can see this ending up costing more than Heroku. $3000/m is one (underpaid) developer here in Scandinavia. That's the equation that's often lacking, and why Heroku is still worth it where I work.