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646 points digianarchist | 3 comments | 06 Oct 20 14:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.483s | 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. bastawhiz ◴[06 Oct 20 21:42 UTC] No.24702634[source]▶
In my experience, the Heroku $9/mo plan isn't usable for anything production-ready. I had to upgrade to the next tier when I crossed about 100 active users. For $9/mo, you're also getting a pretty prohibitive row limit and a really low connection limit. DO's $7/mo dev database is more in line with Heroku's dev offering.
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2. pier25 ◴[06 Oct 20 22:11 UTC] No.24702927[source]▶
OTOH the PG Standard 0 (4GB RAM, 64GB storage) of Heroku costs $50:

https://www.heroku.com/pricing#data-services

On Digital Ocean the first offering with 4GB of RAM costs $60 and it only has 38GB of storage:

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#managed-databases

3. brylie ◴[07 Oct 20 11:49 UTC] No.24707260[source]▶
From what I can tell, the cheapest managed database on DigitalOcean is $15/month, as was mentioned previously in this thread.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#managed-databases