$5 PlanetScale is live

(planetscale.com)
20 points e2e4 | 8 comments | 16 Nov 25 03:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.631s | source | bottom
1. gnabgib ◴[16 Nov 25 03:16 UTC] No.45942469[source]▶
Related: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases (233 points, 16 days ago, 169 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761027
2. kikkia ◴[16 Nov 25 06:35 UTC] No.45943224[source]▶
Hearing a $5 tier on planetscale was cool and I was thinking about using it for a future project, but those specs are just way too low to be worth it for $5/mo. I think I will just get a $5/mo vps with 32x the CPU (probably more as this is 2 x86 cpu cores vs 1/16 arm) and 8x the ram for the same price. The stats, insights and dashboards are cool, but for hobbyist projects that's too steep for the specs you get in my opinion.
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3. normie3000 ◴[16 Nov 25 07:21 UTC] No.45943373[source]▶
What is planetscale? A postgres PaaS?
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4. 7moritz7 ◴[16 Nov 25 07:34 UTC] No.45943409[source]▶
5 bucks gets you 8gb ram 4 vcpu 75gb nvme at contabo actually

i know this is apples and oranges but that's 16 times the ram

5. 7moritz7 ◴[16 Nov 25 07:34 UTC] No.45943410[source]▶
They got big with mysql with optimizations (maybe mariadb?). neon would be postgres aas
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6. fastball ◴[16 Nov 25 07:55 UTC] No.45943485{3}[source]▶
Vitess (sharded MySQL) is how they became relevant. But broadly they've spent a lot of time making a great DaaS. There plan is to do the same with Postgres.
7. DeathArrow ◴[16 Nov 25 07:58 UTC] No.45943498[source]▶
What are the limitations of the $5 Postgres instances?