On: Free Postgres databases for small projects

[jamiegreen]

Not sure if this is a dumb question but is this basically the same as Heroku? What’s the difference?

[mrkurt → jamiegreen]

We're different, but only because we were builtin 2020 instead of 2008. Notably:

1. You get your own Postgres proces and disk, no shared database instances 2. Private networking is baked in. Your app talks to postgres over an encrypted private network 3. You can provision persistent disks and run basically anything you want 4. We support arbitrary TCP and UDP services, not just HTTP.

We're also substantially cheaper.

[jamiegreen → mrkurt]

That's awesome. Thanks for the reply. :)