I notice that PlanetScale has a Developer Educator position available. Has anyone sent that to Aaron Francis yet? He might be interested.
Imagine laying off one of the most genuine, friendly developer evangelists of all time.
PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
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Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#62well...Many database vendors offers free databases for dev purpose for years, i mean it's not a news.
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#63Remember when they shafted the free plan, laid off some good people and redesigned their website to look like some garish notepad? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
Sounds horrible. Trying to think of another tech company that scaled down a free offering or laid off staff. Coming up empty.
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#64Sadly they don't mention that this will come to MySQL/vitess as well, it makes it look like Postgres is thing they care about now as a company.
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would we? we make a (small) profit on these cheaper tiers. We are a sustainable and profitable company. Also the free tier wasnt cancelled very recently it was 1.5 years ago so you are reaching a bit here.
A bit of unsolicited advice: This post is the first time I've heard of your company and your blog post interested me. When proprietors go to the mat in the comment section, I immediately lose any interest in patronizing them.
He's responding in good faith to people expressing doubt that they will maintain this pricing tier, and is responding to rebuttals. Whether you agree with his point of view is different.
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#66I think it is amusing that half the comments section here is complaining about the lack of a free plan and the other half is complaining that the $5 plan is too cheap for them to keep it around.
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#67I'm surprised so many replies here are about removing a free tier 2 years ago. Things cost money, what did you expect? Whenever I get free products that cost money I expect it's either temporary, or I'm being the product myself.
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#68Databricks Neon [1] has a free tier for their Postgres service. Neon's strength that allows them to offer a free tier lies in their serverless, cloud-native PostgreSQL architecture with a separation of storage and compute resources. This allows Neon to scale compute to zero automatically when the database is idle.
[1] https://neon.com
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#69Sadly they don't mention that this will come to MySQL/vitess as well, it makes it look like Postgres is thing they care about now as a company.
This is not true. All of our Vitess operations assume 3 node clusters. It's a lot of work to change (we have hundreds of thousands of nodes). For Postgres it was a lot simpler to do based on the architecture. There are equally good things coming for Vitess it's just for a slightly different audience.
Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
#70Most shared hosting services offer something similar for about the same price. On Dreamhost, the database servers are independent of the hosting servers. You can access the database servers from outside Dreamhost, if you configure MySQL to allow it.