This is almost certainly not the right place for this kind of question but perhaps someone might be willing to point me in the right direction.
I am currently paying $9.50/mo for a Webfaction plan with 100GB disk, 600GB bandwidth, 256MB RAM + unlimited MySQL and PostgreSQL databases + various other services (webmail, SSH access, etc). What would the use case be for switching to, say, a Heroku plan with 1 Web Dyno and a 10M row PostgreSQL database? If I'm reading correctly, 1 Web Dyno will cost me $0/mo + $9/mo for the basic plan = $9/mo, which is comparable to the Webfaction plan, price-wise.
The use case would be if you want to use the Heroku toolchain. Which is really nice. VPS is always going to be cheaper. Even in that case, Heroku is on the mid to upper level of costs for a PaaS.
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This is almost certainly not the right place for this kind of question but perhaps someone might be willing to point me in the right direction.
I am currently paying $9.50/mo for a Webfaction plan with 100GB disk, 600GB bandwidth, 256MB RAM + unlimited MySQL and PostgreSQL databases + various other services (webmail, SSH access, etc). What would the use case be for switching to, say, a Heroku plan with 1 Web Dyno and a 10M row PostgreSQL database? If I'm reading correctly, 1 Web Dyno will cost me $0/mo + $9/mo for the basic plan = $9/mo, which is comparable to the Webfaction plan, price-wise.
If you run on the free 1 dyno plan, your web app is not always resident so you will get occasional multi-second loading request times.
The use case would be if you want to use the Heroku toolchain. Which is really nice. VPS is always going to be cheaper. Even in that case, Heroku is on the mid to upper level of costs for a PaaS.
Don't forget the continuous protection backups...