Comment by princevegeta89
7 months ago
For most use-cases, Serverless Postgres is a nasty thing in my experience. It is way too slow and has a lot of latency over the wire, even for production apps.
The scaling requirement doesn't usually happen to startups until they hit ~4 years or later, and it is not much useful to optimize for it anytime before that. Add the cost aspect to it and it becomes close to meaningless.
You're way better off running your own managed Postgres service or container that costs about $10 a month.
What “managed Postgres service” is there for $10/mo? Seriously, I’m very interested.
I don’t care about serverless but I do appreciate being able to scale up and down. At the end of the day I just want managed Postgres with backups and, ideally, automatic failover. Aka, I don’t want to think about my DB.
I pay Neon $20/mo currently.
Check out Xata.io. A `xata.micro` instance is ~$9 per month (+storage). It’s in private beta but I can give you access if you are interested.