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		jbigelow76 on Nov 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Heroku Postgres: SQL Database-as-a-Service $200 is cheap but I'm hoping they eventually put out an option closer to the $40/mo price point just so I can play around with Postgre (I'm currently a MS SQLServer guy that wants to start branching out). I don't want to spin up a new AWS and waste time with configuration and other things and don't want to worry about hosing a currently running instance just to have a new sandbox to play in. I'd pay a reasonable amount to have something akin to a cheap "test" instance in exchange for giving up things like an SLA or dedicated support.

einhverfr on Nov 23, 2011 | [–]

If you want to just play around with it, why not download and install it? No charge for that.....

rmgraham on Nov 23, 2011 | [–]

Their shared DB hosting is free or 5MB and $15/mo for 20GB. It's not going to have all fancy features of the dedicated (fork, follow, etc) but it is Postgres at least.

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