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Rent metal and run your own MySQL/Postgres/... One insert every 3 seconds. Could run that off a 10 year old laptop.

• marcinzm 5y ago
  The time spent setting it up and managing it and then having to deal with backups/environment clones/access control/scaling limitations/etc. outweighs the savings for almost any company paying US wages. Especially since you'd need metal for everything and not just the db due to network latency.
  • rytcio 5y ago
    I think you're over estimating how complicated that stuff is...
    • marcinzm 5y ago
      It's very easy to do it in a half-assed way and much harder to do it at scale in a production environment with many developers without hurting developer productivity at all.
  • Nextgrid 5y ago
    Every cloud-hosted startup I've consulted for had a full-time devops guy wrangling Terraform and YAML files. The cloud requires an equivalent time investment.
    • marcinzm 5y ago
      Bare metal requires the equivalent of all of that devops stuff and then more. That is if you actually want parity and not just a half assed version that hurts developer productivity and causes technical debt.
• dreyfan 5y ago
  Sure, but we're addressing people who are so far on the other end of the spectrum they're using a "serverless" database where they pay for the number of rows scanned per query. I think a managed DB is a better middle-ground for their capability level while still delivering massive cost-savings. Amazon RDS lowest-tier runs about $13/mo for 10GB storage, 2 vCPUs and 1GB memory with automated backups and push-button restoring. And that would have likely met all of their needs with capacity to spare.
• williamdclt 5y ago
  They clearly don't have the skills for that. And at one insert every 3s, a managed service like RDS won't really cost much.
  • mike_hock 5y ago
    ... until you forget to create an index, apparently.