[bradly]

All I really need is my app process and a relational database. SQLite would be fine, but being filesystem based doesn't work with with Heroku or Fly.io.

Heroku's cheapest Postgres server is $5. I don't have the advanced math degree needed to understand Fly's pricing on relational dbs. The cheapest RDS instance came in around $12 a month.

At this point I think my cheapest option is either Heroku Eco dyno + Mini Postgres at $10 or a single ec2 instance running both my app and db. A nano instance is $3 a month, but it's unclear how the nano will fare with a db and app running concurrently.

edit: I wasn't familiar with Render. I'm trying it now.

[mrkurt]

We actually have first class SQLite support on Fly.io with LiteFS. You should be able to run a Rails app for ~$5 per month in that config.

[bradly]

Thanks for this, but I'm struggling to understand how that lines up with what I'm reading in the docs. I see $5 for the hobby plan and then "$5 per month for up to 10GB of database storage" for LiteFS. I cannot tell if a relational db of any kind is included in the hobby plan. It seems like I need to add a payment method to find the details of the plan. What am I missing here?