Should I consider this if I’m using Render or fly.io for my services? Would latency be an issue? On my day job I cluster in the same AWS AZ and don’t realize what impact this would have for an app that may not be colocated.
PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
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Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#52Should I consider this if I’m using Render or fly.io for my services? Would latency be an issue? On my day job I cluster in the same AWS AZ and don’t realize what impact this would have for an app that may not be colocated.
Really big impact! I'm not sure how fly or render work but if your compute instances are in $city make sure your planetscale instance is too. You shouldn't be far off 'in region aws' latency at the point.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most people only need a single database node and will only ever need a single database node. There are many LOB apps in the world that you could reasonably turn off from 5 pm to 9 am every day. Five 9’s is an incredibly expensive and often unnecessary feature. I think this is a great offering.
Funnily enough I've been contemplating the idea of websites open during business hours and such for "local" as in kinda national scales. But it breaks down quickly once you factor in a potentially global audience. So yeah, in the end available as much as possible (while sounding like "I needed it yesterday") might be the way to go even if you're not actually aiming for the extreme end of uptime.
Government websites like that aren't crazy uncommon because the letter of the law around accessibility can be interpreted to require a real person to be available any time the website is available for certain electronic forms: https://freakonomics.com/2012/08/this-website-only-open-duri...
(people in the comments did not get the correct reason why)
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#54Remember when they shafted the free plan, laid off some good people and redesigned their website to look like some garish notepad? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
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#55This is really good!
After they ditched there free tier, it became basically untenable to justify trying Planetscale for $30 (USD as well) on a POC or MVP product, and it also felt like you were paying a lot for unneeded hardware.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
You were buying flow for your sales funnel with a free plan now you want to attract users with a low tier plan. Your reputation was hurt with the first rug pull so why be surprised that users expect another rug pull from you in the future?
I think what Sam means is $5/mo is already profitable for them. Free plan wasn't.
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#57I notice that PlanetScale has a Developer Educator position available. Has anyone sent that to Aaron Francis yet? He might be interested.
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#58I notice that PlanetScale has a Developer Educator position available. Has anyone sent that to Aaron Francis yet? He might be interested.
I'm not sure returning to his previous job is his top priority right now.
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#59Remember when they shafted the free plan, laid off some good people and redesigned their website to look like some garish notepad? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
Yeah, and they became an actual profitable tech company which is extremely rare today.