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by merlincorey 4271 days ago
> For us (at Clearbit), it made sense to build our own infrastructure for cost reasons, especially since we're using EC2's spot instances.

> * Postgres is also supported by Dokku, but I personally go with AWS RDS.

That's funny - I've costed it, and it's cheaper to run equal sized instances of a DB node than to run RDS, plus you get way more control over the tuning and implementation of your database layer.