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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by matt-p on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:21PM (#45663039)
RDS/managed database is extremely nice I will admit, otherwise I agree. Similarly s3, if you're going to do object storage, then running minio or whatever locally is probably not cheaper overall than R2 or similar.
Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by objektif on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:35AM (#45668943)
I would never ever go back to hosting own DB. It is just a maintenance nightmare.