Heroku Postgres Basic Plan

I always thought that limiting by the "size" of the database in megabytes was unintuitive with the 5MB/25MB plans (how many bytes are in a row?)- pricing per-row is much more developer friendly.<p>I wonder how they'll handle someone doing something awful like storing images or blobs in the database, though.

This is almost certainly not the right place for this kind of question but perhaps someone might be willing to point me in the right direction.<p>I am currently paying $9.50/mo for a Webfaction plan with 100GB disk, 600GB bandwidth, 256MB RAM + unlimited MySQL and PostgreSQL databases + various other services (webmail, SSH access, etc). What would the use case be for switching to, say, a Heroku plan with 1 Web Dyno and a 10M row PostgreSQL database? If I'm reading correctly, 1 Web Dyno will cost me $0/mo + $9/mo for the basic plan = $9/mo, which is comparable to the Webfaction plan, price-wise.

This sounds great, but I'm wondering how long we can expect the "brief" beta period to be. I've got a client who does not need the $200/month Ronin database, but would be perfectly suited for Crane or this new new basic plan. However, I'm reluctant to choose plans that warn of decreased stability. My client's website launches in one month. Is it safe to choose one of these plans?

That is a sweet spot: lots of people need a full service, but smaller PostgreSQL database.<p>Off topic, but what I would really like to see: I have several long term tiny web apps hosted for free at Heroku. I understand that their costs for hosting these is minimal because unpaid for web apps get swapped out, and thus there is a several second loading request time when they are 'woken up.'<p>I would love an inexpensive "1 dyno" paid for plan positioned between the 1 dyno free plan and the two dyno paid plan for $35. The 1 dyno paid plan, at about $15/month (or maybe it shoult be 1/2 of $35?) would I bet be popular. I would like all of my apps to be always on, even the little toy/side projects.

Hmmm... now they need to bridge explaining the current plans with the new ones. Perhaps in the dashboard they will report both the size of the DB and the number of rows occupied.

That's a very attractive price point. I'm really considering switching Tehula[1]'s backend. The previous "basic" plan was too pricey for our needs right now. But this new option makes using Heroku Postgres really attractive.<p>[1] <a href="http://tehula.com" rel="nofollow">http://tehula.com</a>

Q: if you add a $10/month basic plan to a free 1-dyno web app, does that web app become paid for, and thus always be active?

Does this plan support PostGIS?

For 57.6$ per month if we calculate month=30 days on ec2 i can get a small ubuntu linux instance with 1.7G of ram with a lot more than 10.000 rows<p><a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/</a><p>After that installing a firebird database can be easy if i choose ubuntu instance<p>Next you can add nginx/django just for fun For backup there are many python scripts to backup to s3/ebs snapshots