3 ms·FWIW Tarsnap was launched in 2008, the initial RDS for MySQL was launched in 2009.by lordgilman 3y agoFWIW Tarsnap was launched in 2008, the initial RDS for MySQL was launched in 2009.zetalyrae 3y agoYou can always self-host Postgres.masfuerte 3y agoThe VM crashed, corrupting the file system. This could have made a Postgres database unrecoverable. For rock solid reliability you need more than a database instance.zetalyrae 3y agoMake two of them.masfuerte 3y agoKeeping some kind of Postgres cluster running for over a decade seems like a lot of work. tarsnap seems to require roughly no maintenance.