$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
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$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
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Re: $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
#2Let's gooooo! Incredible deal for indiehackers.
Re: $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
#3Really excited for more people to get to use Metal. Let me know if you have any questions.
Re: $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
#4Sounds cool!
Would be curious to know what the underlying aws ec2 instance is.
Is each DB on a dedicated instance?
If not, are there per-customer iops bounds?
Re: $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
#5I'm stoked about this release too...
From what I can tell, the 'Metal' offering runs on nodes with directly attached NVMe rather than network-attached storage. That means there isn't a per-customer IOPS cap – they actually market it as 'unlimited I/O' because you hit CPU before saturating the disk. The new $50 M-class clusters are essentially smaller versions of those nodes with adjustable CPU and RAM in AWS and GCP .
RE: EC2 shapes, it's not a shared EBS volume but a dedicated instance with local storage. BUT you'll still want to monitor capacity since the storage doesn't autoscale.
ALSO this pricing makes high-throughput Postgres accessible for indie projects, which is pretty neat.
Re: $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
#6Really excited for more people to get to use Metal. Let me know if you have any questions.
Why is Metal not offered for single instance deploys? Our app does not need this kind of uptime. We would be happy with a node going down once in a while (no data loss, of course) with a little bit of downtime to save 66% on the cost of running 2 additional nodes that will never see action.
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#7 > $50
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Re: $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
#9Really excited for more people to get to use Metal. Let me know if you have any questions.
Why is Metal not offered for single instance deploys? Our app does not need this kind of uptime. We would be happy with a node going down once in a while (no data loss, of course) with a little bit of downtime to save 66% on the cost of running 2 additional nodes that will never see action.
It's a durability thing, we need to make sure writes are replicated off to at least one node. There might be avenues to get Metal down to single node in the future.
Re: $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
#10Sounds cool! Would be curious to know what the underlying aws ec2 instance is. Is each DB on a dedicated instance? If not, are there per-customer iops bounds?
there aren't per customer IOPs limits but the CPU will be the bottleneck.