[karmelapple]

We do, although we're in the middle of moving our entire Heroku Postgres spend over to Crunchy Data [1].

We were getting close to one of the big jumps on the standard pricing of Heroku Postgres, and we would have had to basically double our monthly cost to lift the max data we could store from 1.5TB to 2.0TB. On Crunchy Data, that additional disk space will be like 1% more rather than 100% more.

While investigating Crunchy, I ran some benchmarks, and I found Crunchy Bridge Postgres to be running 3X faster than Heroku Postgres.

Heroku seems to be working on some interesting new things, but I feel burned by the subpar performance and lack of basically any new features over many years. I don't know if the new Aurora-based database will be faster than Crunchy, but the benchmarks they're talking about sound like they're finally about to catch them. But we also have better features on Crunchy, too, such as logical replication. Logical replication is still not available on Heroku.

The experience for deploying apps and having add-ons is still pretty easy, but we'll see how that improves. HTTP2 support is still in beta.

1. https://www.crunchydata.com

[almost]

My experience with going from Heroku Postgres to Crunchy Data (specific Crunchy Bridge) has been really good. Their product has been absolutely rock solid but what really made the difference was their support. They provided a huge amount of pre-sales support while I planned the move (and even suggested mitigations for the problems I was having with Heroku Postgres to make moving less urgent). Post-sales support has been just as good, though mostly I don’t even have to think about the database hosting anymore.

I also moved my app hosting to NorthFlank from Heroku and have been really happy with that as well. It’s got the features I always wanted on Heroku (simple things like grouping different types of instances together into projects really helps) plus again excellent responsive support.

[scraplab]

Our experience of moving from Heroku to CrunchyBridge has been very similar - excellent help with the migration including jumping on a call with us during the switchover to resolve a broken index.

Would strongly recommend them to anyone looking to move off Heroku.

[almost]

I was a bit concerned about the cut-over from the old database on Heroku, really wanted to minimise downtime. So they helped me produce a step by step plan, test as much of it as possible, then had an engineer join me on Zoom while I made the switchover. They were even able to accomodate doing it in the early morning in my timezone to minimise the impact. Ended up with maybe 5 mins of downtime which I was very happy with.

[cyberax]

I'm working in a new startup, and I tried several "easy" solutions: AWS Lightsail, Heroku, Crunchy.

I settled up on AWS ECS :)

My main issue with Heroku was that they have not changed anything in _years_. No support for gRPC, no IPv6, and simple VPC peering costs $1200 a month.

[davepeck]

Yeah, the lack of HTTP/2 support has been a long-standing issue with Heroku.

They just shipped HTTP/2 terminated at their router [0], and have it on their roadmap [1] to support HTTP/2 all the way through. But it seems like it's at minimum a few months off.

(As for VPC peering: the moment you need that, it sorta feels like Heroku is no longer the right place to be, even ignoring the costs.)

[0] https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-http2-public-beta [1] https://github.com/orgs/heroku/projects/130

[karmelapple]

They just shipped it, but it's still beta. So... I wouldn't consider that shipped yet.

[singingfish]

+1 - recommend crunchy. I ran a substantial oracle to postgres project recently and crunchy were great.

[karmelapple]

Update to this: we've switched over our staging database, and the call to do that couldn't have been. more productive or more pleasant.

I got to talk to someone who was intelligent about Postgres, who answered various questions I had, who offered a few pieces of insight that I wouldn't have thought, etc.

Compared to every single support interaction I've ever had with Heroku for 10 years, and this was light years more friendly, informative, and productive.

I am so happy we're switching. Way to go Crunchy!

[karmelapple]

And one more update: we switched in production, and the first 24 hours have been smooth.