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PlanetScale for Postgres

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joshstrange ◴[] No.44437955[source]
I used PlanetScale or a year or two before switching to Neon. I needed 1 database per tenant and PlanetScale didn't support that (you had to pay $30/mo per database, now it looks like $39/mo). My use-case is weird and I also don't need powerful servers (in fact I'd just as well prefer to run multiple databases on 1 server, I don't have a noisy-neighbor problem in my business). Neon let me do that but I couldn't on PS.

I get it, I'm a small fish trying to pay a little as possible for fully managed postgres (or MySQL before I switched to Postgres when I moved to Neon) to run my small, bootstrapped company with spiky [0] but fairly predictable load.

Best of luck to PlanetScale with this new offering, one day I hope I can use them again. I enjoyed the product and the support was great.

[0] I write software for food festivals, 9 months out of the year there is no traffic, ~2 months of the year there is a tiny trickle, ~3 weeks seeing high (but not "high" by any definition) and then 1-5 days (depending on how long the event is) there is a good deal of load but still not more than the lowest tier can handle most of the time. Like I said, I'm a _small_ fish and I don't expect them to cater to me, I just know what I want and almost no one provides it directly.

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1. x-complexity ◴[] No.44441332[source]
> I needed 1 database per tenant

...Depending on how many tenants that is, Turso may fit your use case.

https://turso.tech/