<story><title>The economics of a Postgres free tier</title><url>https://xata.io/blog/postgres-free-tier</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tossandthrow</author><text>I would love a service, where I can pay 2$ per month, pre-paid, something like my email, and then get a worry free Postgres instance - some limits as what these free databases offer, just for 1-2$ a month so that I know that I pay my part and that the database is kept alive.&lt;p&gt;But all DBaaS&amp;#x27;s seem to offer free or at least 20$ per month, which is excessive for a small hobby project.&lt;p&gt;Does that exist?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renewiltord</author><text>People who want to pay that little and can’t manage it themselves are very demanding. Better not to do business with them. I have a $2.50&amp;#x2F;mo racknerd machine. Just bare Linux. Just do something like that. If you don’t want to, chances are that no one wants to manage it for you either.</text></comment>
<story><title>The economics of a Postgres free tier</title><url>https://xata.io/blog/postgres-free-tier</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tossandthrow</author><text>I would love a service, where I can pay 2$ per month, pre-paid, something like my email, and then get a worry free Postgres instance - some limits as what these free databases offer, just for 1-2$ a month so that I know that I pay my part and that the database is kept alive.&lt;p&gt;But all DBaaS&amp;#x27;s seem to offer free or at least 20$ per month, which is excessive for a small hobby project.&lt;p&gt;Does that exist?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TechDebtDevin</author><text>Hetzner 2vCPU 4GB RAM 40gb: €4.50 per month.&lt;p&gt;Three Docker Containers: Postgres, NGINX, PostgREST&lt;p&gt;Or Pocketbase if that&amp;#x27;s your sort of thing.&lt;p&gt;Automate snapshots for backups: €0.0131&amp;#x2F;GB per month.</text></comment>