Man, i just had a look at heroku pricing and my monthly estimate worked out to be $75 (DB + VM) which is far more than I was hoping for.
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quatermain
Can I ask why 75? Which paid addons do you need? So you can check AWS or DO Apps solution. Or you can give use some more information about architecture and maybe we can save you some money.
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brightball
Fwiw, you can connect to AWS RDS from Heroku. I’ve been running a $7 Hobby dyno for years without issues too.
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quatermain
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IVR
Sorry, my mistake, when I was browsing on mobile, I missed a few options that would work best for me. Now I ended up with a quote of 16 per month which is quite reasonable
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derek-zhou
I am curious, what kind of latency do you see in this setup? You are running the database in a different provider, a different data center, from your application, with firewall and TLS and possibly a load balancer in between.
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brightball
I’ve never measured it mainly because I’ve never noticed it as a problem. Heroku runs in AWS us-east-1 so if you provision RDS there your only latency will be between Availability Zones. On several sites we do the same thing with Gigalixir + AWS RDS.
You need to add the RDS cert to your application and use verify-full on your connection string for some added security since you can’t easily VPC limit the connections to the database until you can afford to pay for Heroku Private Spaces.
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derek-zhou
Both Gigalixir and Heroku provide managed database services, with which I have no experience either. You don’t use them because cost concerns? Not much added value to you?
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brightball
Having used RDS and Aurora for years, I’m very comfortable with how easy both make hard things over the lifetime of the DB. Particularly Aurora, which is incredible.
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