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by nineteen999 1235 days ago
> I guess the bigger lesson though is that Heroku should really be a last resort option for projects these days.

Maybe people shouldn't, I don't know because I've never used it, but ...

> I learned my lesson about not doing an offsite backup regularly.

This is the bigger lesson, no matter whether you are using third party database hosting, or hosting yourself, whether it's a NoSQL database or a SQL one.

Once the data is gone, its gone.