Yes, you can use the Heroku shared databases which come with the hosted 
applications ranging from free to $20/mo (5mb - 20Gb).

If you're not hosting your application on Heroku, create one anyway, and then 
you'll see the database URL in that applications configuration.

Neil 

Neil


On Friday, 9 December 2011 at 12:19, djangst wrote:

> Is there a Postgres option for smaller apps, such as free up to (x)
> MB?
> 
> The plans now seem to start at $200/mo., which is steep for a new
> project. It makes the NoSQL options seem like a better deal, at least
> at the outset.
> 
> And if they aren't, that's exactly why a Postgres plan allowing users
> to ramp-up to something larger would make sense. It reminds me of
> Braintree, which presents a similar barrier for startups.
> 
> On Dec 8, 6:51 pm, Peter van Hardenberg <[email protected] (http://heroku.com)> 
> wrote:
> > Hi Anil,
> > 
> > you can set up your own MySQL server outside Heroku on EC2 and attach it to
> > your app.
> > 
> > That said, we don't believe RDS is a sufficiently high quality service to
> > offer our customers, which is why we built Heroku Postgres.
> > 
> > Peter
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