[jimstr]

We made the mistake of buying a 20 core server for running SQL Server 2008, which was fine then, but the upgrade to 2016 would be really expensive due to the new per-core licensing, which means we'll probably be stuck with 2008. Microsoft doesn't leave us much choice than to use Postgres from now on.

[tracker1]

Not fun... don't know what the pricing structure is for self-hosted SQL...

I have been considering using either Amazon's Postgres RDS or Azure SQL for a couple of side projects, with the app itself running on Digital Ocean... Kind of leaning towards the Azure SQL option for easier scaling, and a little more hands-off.