[snovv_crash]

At 160/mo you are using so little you might as well host off of a raspberry pi on your desk with a USB3 SSD attached. Maintenance and keeping a hot backup would take a few hours to set up, and you're more flexible too. And if you need to scale, rent a VPS or even dedicated machine from Hetzner.

An LLM could set this up for you, it's dead simple.

[strken]

I'm not going to put customer data on a USB-3 SSD sitting on my desk. Having a small database doesn't mean you can ignore physical security and regulatory compliance, particularly if you've still got reasonable cash flow. Just as one example, some of our regulatory requirements involve immutable storage - how am I supposed to make an SSD that's literally on my desk immutable in any meaningful way? S3 handles this in seconds. Same thing with geographically distributed replicas and backups.

I also disagree that the ongoing maintenance, observability, and testing of a replicated database would take a few hours to set up and then require zero maintenance and never ping me with alerts.

[snovv_crash]

The lede I buried there is whether all of this theater actually gives you better security and availability than 'toy' hardware.

Looking at all the recent AWS, Azure and Cloudflare outages, I posit that it doesn't.

[flomo]

Nice troll. But TFA is about corporate IT so hopefully you get whatever.