[orf]

This plan is $576 a month, the actual hardware you get for that is mediocre at best. A postgres instance and git push deploy isn't worth that much and isn't that hard to set up yourself.

sure, you could run into some issues while doing it yourself but that risk isn't worth nearly $600 p/m IMO

[jroes]

How many hours do you spend a month on devops tasks? And on top of that, how diligent are you with applying patches, testing backups, and all other sorts of drudgery necessary to keep a production site running smoothly? Take that number of hours, multiply it by your consulting rate, and there's a good chance Heroku may save you money.

For most production apps, you'd need at least a part time ops person to do things right. That's the kind of cost Heroku saves you.