<story><title>Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianh</author><text>This is HUGE!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using the AWS stack for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.soundslice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.soundslice.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and I&amp;#x27;ve been using MySQL instead of Postgres, purely because my hatred for MySQL is less than my hatred for being a sysadmin. It was a tradeoff, and I miss Postgres dearly every time I use MySQL.&lt;p&gt;This new Amazon offering solves that.&lt;p&gt;I wrote a little more about my AWS setup here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.holovaty.com/writing/aws-notes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.holovaty.com&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;aws-notes&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fat0wl</author><text>Yea I was using MySQL on RDS just to escape the Heroku monolith. Funny that Heroku announced a new Postgres pricing model that is VERY expensive compared to old setup (&lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712570&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6712570&lt;/a&gt;) just in time to be wiped off the map by RDS.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianh</author><text>This is HUGE!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using the AWS stack for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.soundslice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.soundslice.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and I&amp;#x27;ve been using MySQL instead of Postgres, purely because my hatred for MySQL is less than my hatred for being a sysadmin. It was a tradeoff, and I miss Postgres dearly every time I use MySQL.&lt;p&gt;This new Amazon offering solves that.&lt;p&gt;I wrote a little more about my AWS setup here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.holovaty.com/writing/aws-notes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.holovaty.com&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;aws-notes&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sync</author><text>Hey, just took a look at soundslice, looks super nice.&lt;p&gt;FYI, it doesn&amp;#x27;t look your payment modal works on smaller browser windows: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.monosnap.com/image/UvJbxMQEwkzqLH5btNJ7a9G6Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.monosnap.com&amp;#x2F;image&amp;#x2F;UvJbxMQEwkzqLH5btNJ7a9G6Q&lt;/a&gt; ... no visible pay button, and the modal itself scrolls when you scroll the page.</text></comment>