I use both. I have a side project deployed to Heroku and it&#x27;s fine there, but it costs me about $45&#x2F;month. The same project would often have a better response time (when heroku sleeps the dyno) if it were hosted on DO, and both would require no maintenance (I haven&#x27;t edited a line of code in ~2 years). It&#x27;s a django&#x2F;postgres setup, nothing special, and would run on the smallest DO instance.<p>I&#x27;m just too lazy to switch it over, honestly. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a difference between &quot;building it myself&quot; and &quot;using someone else&#x27;s solution.&quot; It&#x27;s about an hour of setup, maybe 2 if I encounter headaches. I probably ought to do it, given it&#x27;ll earn me $35-40 per month forever.