[bastawhiz]

In my experience, the Heroku $9/mo plan isn't usable for anything production-ready. I had to upgrade to the next tier when I crossed about 100 active users. For $9/mo, you're also getting a pretty prohibitive row limit and a really low connection limit. DO's $7/mo dev database is more in line with Heroku's dev offering.

[pier25]

OTOH the PG Standard 0 (4GB RAM, 64GB storage) of Heroku costs $50:

https://www.heroku.com/pricing#data-services

On Digital Ocean the first offering with 4GB of RAM costs $60 and it only has 38GB of storage:

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#managed-databases

[brylie]

From what I can tell, the cheapest managed database on DigitalOcean is $15/month, as was mentioned previously in this thread.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#managed-databases