Heroku Postgres seems like a nice service, that eases the pain of database management. Personally I have no experience in managing DB clusters, so that's why I like the service very much. However, I was wondering if anyone could provide some experiences with the service, and if the steep price is worth it.
Let's assume I have a Fugu instance with 3.75GB
of RAM, that would cost me 400 USD
per month. How can I justify a price difference of 340 USD / 666%
to a self hosted Postgres instance on a SSD backed VPS with 4GB
of RAM on ramnode that would cost me 60USD
?