Hearing a $5 tier on planetscale was cool and I was thinking about using it for a future project, but those specs are just way too low to be worth it for $5/mo. I think I will just get a $5/mo vps with 32x the CPU (probably more as this is 2 x86 cpu cores vs 1/16 arm) and 8x the ram for the same price. The stats, insights and dashboards are cool, but for hobbyist projects that's too steep for the specs you get in my opinion.
7moritz7•34m ago
5 bucks gets you 8gb ram 4 vcpu 75gb nvme at contabo actually
i know this is apples and oranges but that's 16 times the ram
normie3000•47m ago
What is planetscale? A postgres PaaS?
7moritz7•34m ago
They got big with mysql with optimizations (maybe mariadb?). neon would be postgres aas
fastball•13m ago
Vitess (sharded MySQL) is how they became relevant. But broadly they've spent a lot of time making a great DaaS. There plan is to do the same with Postgres.
DeathArrow•10m ago
What are the limitations of the $5 Postgres instances?
gnabgib•4h ago