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Re: ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

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Post by isodev » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 12:17 PM UTC

tbarbugli wrote: post #30

isodev wrote: post #26

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Absolutely. I’ve been a customer for many years and it’s always been a pleasure to interact with such a simple, transparent and “to the point” UI. The fact that they are a tiny team also bumps it up the list for me.

well, they shut this down probably because they cannot afford to keep a product that bring little revenue. I never heard of AWS retiring a product (I am excluding ancient stuff like VPC classic and SimpleDB, both had an upgrade path to something superior)

AWS is Big Tech. It locks you in, and it's not easy to guard your users' privacy against them. Smaller providers (and also local in the case of 84codes) are preferred.

Re: ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

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Post by pwmtr » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 12:22 PM UTC

slig wrote: post #33

pwmtr wrote: post #29

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Primary architect of Ubicloud PostgreSQL here. Thanks a lot for shout out! I'd be happy to answer if anyone has any questions about our managed service.

Is there any plans to offer your manager service at Digital Ocean / Vultr in the US?

We are planning to open up US regions quite soon but we are mostly focusing on bare metal providers at this point so Digital Ocean is out of picture.

Re: ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

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Post by cpursley » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 12:30 PM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #10

Any strong alternatives?

neon.tech has me impressed so far. supabase as well if you need a baas. render.com for a heroku-like postgres experience.

Re: ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

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Post by throwawaysleep » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 12:56 PM UTC

isodev wrote: post #41

tbarbugli wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well, they shut this down probably because they cannot afford to keep a product that bring little revenue. I never heard of AWS retiring a product (I am excluding ancient stuff like VPC classic and SimpleDB, both had an upgrade path to something superior)

AWS is Big Tech. It locks you in, and it's not easy to guard your users' privacy against them. Smaller providers (and also local in the case of 84codes) are preferred.

Evidently not, as few are willing to pay a large premium for them.

Re: ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

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Post by giovannibonetti » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 12:57 PM UTC

dgellow wrote: post #39

colesantiago wrote: post #3

This makes sense, but also not surprised. In today's world there are countless Postgres providers (Supabase, RDS, DigitalOcean, GCP, Azure, etc) so there is plenty of choice now. Although I don't see why anyone would choose niche providers today other than the cloud provided ones like RDS now.

I had good experience with Aiven in the past, we needed something located in the EU: https://aiven.io/

It's more expensive than AWS RDS and Google Cloud SQL, but their service seems more comprehensive, with fast major version upgrade, multi-cloud deployment and built-in PgBouncer integration. For business critical operations, it is probably worth it.

Re: ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

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Post by thegeekpirate » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 12:57 PM UTC

brennerm wrote: post #16

This might help people when looking for an alternative. https://wheretohostmy.app/?tech=%5B%22postgresql%22%5D It's a side project I'm currently building so hearing some feedback is highly appreciated.

Also Vultr https://www.vultr.com/products/managed-databases/postgresql/

Re: ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

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Post by giovannibonetti » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 12:59 PM UTC

pwmtr wrote: post #29

justinclift wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's quite a few places around. Also Ubicloud look interesting, though I've not personally used them: https://www.ubicloud.com/use-cases/postgresql

Primary architect of Ubicloud PostgreSQL here. Thanks a lot for shout out! I'd be happy to answer if anyone has any questions about our managed service.

Are you planning on offering a hosted ClickHouse service? After all, for analytical use cases latency doesn't matter so much, hence it would make sense even for companies in other continents to use your service.

Re: ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

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Post by zachrip » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 12:59 PM UTC

brennerm wrote: post #16

This might help people when looking for an alternative. https://wheretohostmy.app/?tech=%5B%22postgresql%22%5D It's a side project I'm currently building so hearing some feedback is highly appreciated.

drop the array and quotes in the url to make it prettier :)

Re: ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

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Post by brennerm » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 1:04 PM UTC

thegeekpirate wrote: post #46

brennerm wrote: post #16

This might help people when looking for an alternative. https://wheretohostmy.app/?tech=%5B%22postgresql%22%5D It's a side project I'm currently building so hearing some feedback is highly appreciated.

Also Vultr https://www.vultr.com/products/managed-databases/postgresql/

Thanks, on my list now.

Re: ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down

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Post by brennerm » Sun, Apr 07, 2024, 1:07 PM UTC

zachrip wrote: post #48

brennerm wrote: post #16

This might help people when looking for an alternative. https://wheretohostmy.app/?tech=%5B%22postgresql%22%5D It's a side project I'm currently building so hearing some feedback is highly appreciated.

drop the array and quotes in the url to make it prettier :)

Good point, the library I'm using just encodes the array in JSON but I may be able to switch to a comma separated list.