Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale
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Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale
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#2this is great to see. thank you for the write up.
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#3> Beyond reliability, we faced other challenges:
> - Usage-based pricing that punished our success, the more users chatted, the more we paid
This is such a strange position on usage-based pricing and seems telling.
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#4Neon doesnt have usage based pricing it has autoscaling, there is a difference.
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#5> Beyond reliability, we faced other challenges: > - Usage-based pricing that punished our success, the more users chatted, the more we paid This is such a strange position on usage-based pricing and seems telling.
Not necessarily. Netlify told me as I had blown past 20 bucks for 1TB of traffic that paying 50 bucks for every additional 100GB was 'a good problem to have'. Well no, not at all. If your project is one of love, the end game is not subjecting your audience to boatloads of ads.
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#6> Beyond reliability, we faced other challenges: > - Usage-based pricing that punished our success, the more users chatted, the more we paid This is such a strange position on usage-based pricing and seems telling.
Yeah, at a certain point it's just always running 24/7, which they charge you usage-based if your company is over 750 hours in a month.
If you're running databases continuously, I find a lot of their original unique selling point pretty moot, especially if you're paying them extra for it.
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#7What exactly is PlanetScale Postgres? Is it plain managed Postgres ala RDS or something more bespoke like Neon? I know PlanetScale is working on a Vitess-like sharded Postgres (Neki?) but I’m guessing that is not yet running in the cloud?
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#8They can't afford database administration? Is it that expensive to hire a DBA?
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#9Neon doesnt have usage based pricing it has autoscaling, there is a difference.
We get 750 compute hours per month across our entire org, then charged 16c per hour.
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#10They can't afford database administration? Is it that expensive to hire a DBA?
Pre-seed stage startup of two people. No, we can't hire a DBA.