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We made the mistake of buying a 20 core server for running SQL Server 2008, which was fine then, but the upgrade to 2016 would be really expensive due to the ne

by jimstr 10y ago

We made the mistake of buying a 20 core server for running SQL Server 2008, which was fine then, but the upgrade to 2016 would be really expensive due to the new per-core licensing, which means we'll probably be stuck with 2008. Microsoft doesn't leave us much choice than to use Postgres from now on.

tracker1 10y ago
Not fun... don't know what the pricing structure is for self-hosted SQL... I have been considering using either Amazon's Postgres RDS or Azure SQL for a couple of side projects, with the app itself running on Digital Ocean... Kind of leaning towards the Azure SQL option for easier scaling, and a little more hands-off.