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646 points digianarchist | 3 comments | 06 Oct 20 14:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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avolcano ◴[06 Oct 20 17:37 UTC] No.24700370[source]▶
Is it just me, or is $15/mo for the cheapest Postgres-with-backups a bit steep? Heroku's free DBs (or $9/mo basic plan) support daily backups.

I've currently got a web app I'm just self-hosting on a DO VPS for $5/month. I have a Postgres DB on the same VPS (via a Docker image), with a 10-line shell script & cron job for backups to Backblaze B2 (which costs ~nothing/month for my tiny DB).

Additionally, my web app is a Kotlin API and a Nuxt.js SSR server, so I think I'd have to set it up as two separate "apps" on this platform. That means I'd be going from $5/mo to $25/mo.

On one hand, that's not a ton in the grand scheme of things. On the other hand, the whole reason I use DigitalOcean and self manage my infrastructure is to _not_ have to pay that kind of money for my projects with no revenue.

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1. Sodman ◴[06 Oct 20 17:58 UTC] No.24700569[source]▶
This sounds a bit like the "Why pay for dropbox when rsync is free?" argument. Sure you can do all of that yourself, but for just $10 / mo (5->15) you don't have to worry about it. That's really what they're selling.

$120 / year for peace of mind that your production DB is backed up is well worth it for a lot of people, especially if the alternative is potentially a bug in a homegrown shell script which could silently fail catastrophically and lose your whole DB.

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2. simplify ◴[07 Oct 20 02:55 UTC] No.24704890[source]▶
> This sounds a bit like the "Why pay for dropbox when rsync is free?" argument. Sure you can do all of that yourself

It doesn't sound like that argument. He compared it to Heroku's offerings, which are $0-9.

3. afroboy ◴[07 Oct 20 12:55 UTC] No.24707672[source]▶
Didn't know rsync has free cloud storage.