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Does Heroku have questionable security conventions?

2 pointsby dz0nyabout 2 years ago
Did you know that by default databases on Heroku are open to the world and anyone can connect to them?<p>They explain this in https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.heroku.com&#x2F;QVRZIEAH&#x2F;why-am-i-seeing-connection-errors-for-my-heroku-postgres-database-from-an-unexpected-ip-address-what-are-these-unauthorized-connection-attempts.<p>This would be okayish if those log attempts would not count against the logging add-ons and even their internal logging limit. So what happens if someone tries to brute force the DB instance?<p>First logs get dropped as Heroku Logplex starts dropping all logs once it becomes too much to even show them(https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;cvpHcwi.png), second if you have a logging addon you most likely lost valuable logs (let&#x27;s hope you are not storing them for compliance) and you have to upgrade to a higher plan just to have them processed, ignoring that some of them won&#x27;t even get logged.<p>Support says this is not abuse, they won&#x27;t block offending IPs and that one should upgrade to private space which costs 6x more.<p>Tell me if this is ok practice, I don&#x27;t think it is?

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