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by dencold
4597 days ago
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Wow, talk about hiding the ball. Heroku Postgres 2.0 is changing the cost structure in a dramatic way. Gone is the 1TB of storage on all production plans (now the "standard" tier). Instead, you are limited to 64GB of storage on Heroku's cheapest $50/mo plan. As hoddez mentions above, you'll now need to spend $2000/mo to get the 1TB of storage space that you were able to achieve on yesterday's $50 plan. What's additionally frustrating is they have made pricing much less granular. Instead of 8 pricing levels based on your ram requirements, you now only have 5. Old price points of $100/$400/$800/$1600 have all been eliminated and now you are stuck choosing between $50/$200/$750/$2000. These are steep price jumps between each level. I understand that Heroku wants to highlight the new features here, but when they bury the pricing at the bottom of the post, and even include language like this: "For those already familiar with our pricing our new standard tier is very similar to our now legacy production tier. For some of you this means migrating could actually provide over 45% in cost savings on your production database." It strikes me as a bit disingenuous. For reference, here is the old pricing structure from the archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131003031924/https://www.herok... And here is Heroku's legacy pricing page:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-legacy... |
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In regards to the storage limits, this was put in place actually to prevent users from shooting themselves in the foot. We examined all current users in this process as well as connection limits and looked to what limits were used today, as well as when people were over certain thresholds for the other problems it created. As it exists today you would now hit these limits and have a clear understanding of why, versus other problems that previously arose as a result of having them so high.