4 ms·

Ask HN: Is there any great free PostgreSQL provider?

9 points by zccm 4y ago

I've been looking for one for quite a long time, but none of them fit my demands. MySQL is also fine.

zccm 4y ago
For example, https://www.yugabyte.com/ https://www.yugabyte.com/ is good. But I really wonder what made it unavailable to connect for all of my apps!
brtkdotse 4y ago
Digital Ocean has managed Postgres for $15. I wouldn’t in my wildest fantasies trust a free Postgres provider.
- heurisko 4y ago
  They also have a good tutorial on installing it manually, for one of the cheaper droplets at $4 a month, or on Vultr at $3.50. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-postgresql-on-ubuntu-22-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...
  - diffu5e 4y ago
    A Vultr instance running a PostgreSQL container linked with block storage is pretty cheap and easy to set up.
- nubinetwork 4y ago
  Their managed databases aren't that great unless you're willing to spend $100+/month. The cheap $15 instances are single threaded on oversubscribed hardware. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're okay with queries taking a long time. (Like over a minute when it gets really bad)
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
jasfi 4y ago
It would be interesting to know which providers' free tiers you've tried any why they didn't fit your needs.
jhunter1016 4y ago
Supabase if you was a managed solution. Great free tier IMO.
hkh28 4y ago
Supabase provides a free tier Postgres. There are of course limits to the size, and they will pause your project if it is inactive for 7 days. https://supabase.com/pricing https://supabase.com/pricing
BjoernKW 4y ago
There's ElephantSQL, which offers a free tier: https://www.elephantsql.com/ https://www.elephantsql.com/
- petercooper 4y ago
  Can confirm. I use most of the main platforms but given the price, ElephantSQL has been rock solid for a small side project I have. If you don't need to store a lot of data, you can use it totally free, though I did have to manually vacuum to keep the usage down for some reason.
solarkraft 4y ago
Wow, no mention of Railway yet. They don't really advertise it, they allow you to create a Postgres DB as a part of a project and expose it publicly. It's pay as you go and in my tests I haven't been able to scratch the 5$ minimum. Fly has apparently also recently added this: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DAlperin https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DAlperin
renaissance_tea 4y ago
Oracle free VPS and deploy Postgres. Meet your own needs

9 points by zccm 4y ago

I've been looking for one for quite a long time, but none of them fit my demands. MySQL is also fine.

zccm 4y ago

For example, https://www.yugabyte.com/ https://www.yugabyte.com/ is good. But I really wonder what made it unavailable to connect for all of my apps!

brtkdotse 4y ago

Digital Ocean has managed Postgres for $15. I wouldn’t in my wildest fantasies trust a free Postgres provider.

heurisko 4y ago
They also have a good tutorial on installing it manually, for one of the cheaper droplets at $4 a month, or on Vultr at $3.50. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-postgresql-on-ubuntu-22-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...
- diffu5e 4y ago
  A Vultr instance running a PostgreSQL container linked with block storage is pretty cheap and easy to set up.
nubinetwork 4y ago
Their managed databases aren't that great unless you're willing to spend $100+/month. The cheap $15 instances are single threaded on oversubscribed hardware. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're okay with queries taking a long time. (Like over a minute when it gets really bad)

deleted 4y ago

[deleted]

jasfi 4y ago

It would be interesting to know which providers' free tiers you've tried any why they didn't fit your needs.

jhunter1016 4y ago

Supabase if you was a managed solution. Great free tier IMO.

hkh28 4y ago

Supabase provides a free tier Postgres. There are of course limits to the size, and they will pause your project if it is inactive for 7 days. https://supabase.com/pricing https://supabase.com/pricing

BjoernKW 4y ago

There's ElephantSQL, which offers a free tier: https://www.elephantsql.com/ https://www.elephantsql.com/

petercooper 4y ago
Can confirm. I use most of the main platforms but given the price, ElephantSQL has been rock solid for a small side project I have. If you don't need to store a lot of data, you can use it totally free, though I did have to manually vacuum to keep the usage down for some reason.

solarkraft 4y ago

Wow, no mention of Railway yet. They don't really advertise it, they allow you to create a Postgres DB as a part of a project and expose it publicly. It's pay as you go and in my tests I haven't been able to scratch the 5$ minimum. Fly has apparently also recently added this: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DAlperin https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DAlperin

renaissance_tea 4y ago

Oracle free VPS and deploy Postgres. Meet your own needs