$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres • Hacker News Board

Re: $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres

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Post by HatchedLake721 » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 10:29 AM UTC

dukepiki wrote: post #66

HatchedLake721 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. Love PlanetScale, love their previous website design. I struggle reading white text on black backgrounds, so I don't even try to read their product pages or blog posts since there's no light mode :( yes I know about reader mode It feels it went from "professional Stripe level design that you admire and it inspires you" to just "hard to read black website", not sure what for. (not fully functional) https://web.a…

There's definitely a light mode for planetscale.com (the docs, the blog, the changelog, and the UI). Should work on both desktop and mobile. Make sure your browser is requesting light mode. The browser doesn't always follow your OS-level preferences.

My OS is in dark mode, I usually manually switch websites to light mode, but planetscale.com (except docs) doesn't have the switch.

Re: $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres

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Post by solatic » Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 10:43 AM UTC

unbelievably wrote: post #52

solatic wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> $4529/month... can indeed just hire someone full-time That's $54,348/year, not including the cost of benefits, not including stock compensation. Let's say you reserve 20% for benefits and that comes out to $43,478.40 in salary. Besides the benefit of not needing the management / communication overhead of hiring somebody, do you know any DBAs willing to take a full-time job for $43,478.40 in salary?

Missed the 'extrapolating' part -- for 3x that, absolutely.

But that's the point, innit? How many SMEs need multiple production databases of that size? Nobody's really suggesting that Fortune 500 size enterprises should get by without DBAs. There's a big difference between an enterprise paying for a DBA take care of fleets of production databases, compared to a <50 employee shop that should do just fine with a single production database.

Re: $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres

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Post by kelp » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 6:12 PM UTC

kelp wrote: post #65

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #54

Off-topic: when will postgres 18 be offered on metal?

You can expect to see it in early 2026 for both Metal and EBS backed databases.

In typical PlanetScale style, we like to beat our estimates.

https://planetscale.com/blog/postgres-18-is-now-available