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by parpfish 325 days ago
if i were just using a dataset to store user settings, i could get by with something tiny.

but my problem is that my fun project ideas are usually some variant of "theres a huge dataset, lets build some fun dataviz on it". which is a problem because a) i need a big db to store that giant dataset and b) the db size doesn't scale with usage, so i can't just put it off until later
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withinboredom 324 days ago
You can rent a dedicated server with 1tb disk space, and 12-16 full cores for <50 bucks per month. I'm confident you can host as many projects as you'd like on there for quite awhile.
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lelanthran 325 days ago
Okay, just how much data are we talking?

$5/m droplet + $10/m storage gets you 100GB of storage that you can put a PostgreSQL (or other) DB onto.

The storage situation is not quite as expensive as it used to be.

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/block-storage

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