[crdb]

Thank you! I was thinking exactly the same thing!

Want a cheap database? A Postgres RDS micro instance costs $51 a year upfront or $0.018 per hour. Medium is $200 or $0.073, and that medium instance will probably be more than enough for a dozen projects.

You get the solidity and ease of use of PostgreSQL with all the admin details abstracted away by RDS, and you can be up and running in 10 minutes or less. Get AWS account, spin up DB, write to DB.

Should one of your projects take off and require more, it's a one click upgrade. Or you can pg_dump in seconds, and rebuild it on a separate instance and account and point your app at it. And you get backups and all kinds of nice things out of the box.

I seem to be in the minority in this thread, but I personally much prefer using UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE in the command line to modify data, than clicking on a cell and typing the modification.

[bcRIPster]

High-five. I like your thinking!