Question about Heroku+Postgres vs. Docker+Mariadb

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Hi Everyone,

I’m new to Wappler and have been diving into the docs. I don’t have any database experience and as I was looking at the different deployment options, I felt much more comfortable with the Heroku option versus the Docker one. My concern is that I’m not factoring in everything in this decision process due to my ignorance, so I wanted to ask the community about the pros and cons of each option and their respective database integrations. My site is pretty simple and only requires a payment processor and user login that will store some user properties. From my understanding right now, the only big difference I see between Heroku vs docker+separate cloud host is that Heroku costs more. What else am I missing? Thanks!

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Personally, I would defer the deployment decision until later. Start fast by using a development target using Docker desktop with any of the database options. You’ll want to choose your desired server model (node, php, etc) since that can’t be changed, but I wouldn’t even worry about the final deployment until you are more comfortable with the basics.

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