[zetalyrae]

You can always self-host Postgres.

[masfuerte]

The VM crashed, corrupting the file system. This could have made a Postgres database unrecoverable. For rock solid reliability you need more than a database instance.

[zetalyrae]

Make two of them.

[masfuerte]

Keeping some kind of Postgres cluster running for over a decade seems like a lot of work. tarsnap seems to require roughly no maintenance.