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Re: Ask HN: Is there any great free PostgreSQL provider?

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Post by nubinetwork » Sat, Dec 03, 2022, 6:31 PM UTC

brtkdotse wrote: post #3

Digital Ocean has managed Postgres for $15. I wouldn’t in my wildest fantasies trust a free Postgres provider.

Their managed databases aren't that great unless you're willing to spend $100+/month. The cheap $15 instances are single threaded on oversubscribed hardware. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're okay with queries taking a long time. (Like over a minute when it gets really bad)

Re: Ask HN: Is there any great free PostgreSQL provider?

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Post by diffu5e » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 3:08 AM UTC

heurisko wrote: post #5

brtkdotse wrote: post #3

Digital Ocean has managed Postgres for $15. I wouldn’t in my wildest fantasies trust a free Postgres provider.

They also have a good tutorial on installing it manually, for one of the cheaper droplets at $4 a month, or on Vultr at $3.50. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...

A Vultr instance running a PostgreSQL container linked with block storage is pretty cheap and easy to set up.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any great free PostgreSQL provider?

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Post by renaissance_tea » Sun, Dec 04, 2022, 6:01 AM UTC

Oracle free VPS and deploy Postgres. Meet your own needs

Re: Ask HN: Is there any great free PostgreSQL provider?

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Post by petercooper » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 12:08 PM UTC

BjoernKW wrote: post #9

There's ElephantSQL, which offers a free tier: https://www.elephantsql.com/

Can confirm. I use most of the main platforms but given the price, ElephantSQL has been rock solid for a small side project I have. If you don't need to store a lot of data, you can use it totally free, though I did have to manually vacuum to keep the usage down for some reason.