[jblake]

I run a Saas business solo, for eight years now, netting six figures, and I've been on Heroku the entire time for just under $1,000 a month. Monolithic rails app on a single database, 300 tables.

Sometimes I feel teased by 'moving to EC2' or another hot topic to save a few bucks, but the reality is I've spent at most 2 hours a month doing `heroku pg:upgrade` for maintenance once a year, and `git push production master` for deploys and I'd like to keep it that way. I just hope Heroku doesn't get complacent as they are showing signs of aging. They need a dyno refresh, http/2, and wildcard SSL out of the box. I honestly have no idea what the equivalent EC2/RDS costs are and I'm not sure I want to know.

[infamia]

You should look into render.com which provides a service similar to Heroku. I haven't used them myself and have no connection with them. Their name does pop up a fair bit though.

[winrid]

Congrats on the business taking off! What is it?

[eitland]

Based on jblake's profile it seems to be guestmanager.com, but I might be wrong.

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