[rozenmd]

Last I checked, a 4 vCPU/16GB RAM/1TB storage configuration costs around $80 USD per month at VPS hosts like Hetzner. It's $762 USD per month on RDS.

There are trade-offs of course (https://onlineornot.com/self-hosting-vs-managed-services-dec...) between the two options.

I've been hoping fly.io builds a strong automated middle ground for a while now!

[macNchz]

A few years ago I managed a 10TB Postgres cluster backing a moderately high traffic site. I no longer even give the briefest of blinks at any of the fully managed database prices that used to make my eyes water.

[DiggyJohnson]

Because you feel like you got good value for your 10TB DB or because you feel like you got fleeced? Not sure I understand your undertone.

Cheers

[HillRat]

I think the implication is, “I used to manage my own DB instance and I’m now willing to pay anything even vaguely reasonable to not have to do that again.”

[macNchz]

Correct!

[w-ll]

Am I reading https://instances.vantage.sh/rds/?min_vcpus=4&cost_duration=... wrong. It seams you can get that as a db.t4g.xlarge for ~$188/month.

Still more than 2x the cost, but not nearly $760

[whakim]

Yeah, tack on another $115 or so for the 1TB of storage. And as a sibling comment mentions, on-demand pricing means it isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison. In almost every case other than a hobby project it feels like the convenience of RDS vastly outweighs the savings of ~$250 you'd get by self-hosting.

[some_developer]

> for ~$188/month.

Note that this is still the on-demand price.

Although it's still not Apple to Apple, no one (sane) would useRDS 24x7 without RI. That probably brings you down another 50 bucks or so.

[ithrow]

$188 without storage and bandwidth.

[mnutt]

The t4g instances are also burstable so running your database with 4 cores under load would either get you throttled or produce more charges.