I guess that's true now with these "serverless" databases where compute and storage is separated in a neat way. Otherwise you either need to be ok with keeping

I guess that's true now with these "serverless" databases where compute and storage is separated in a neat way. Otherwise you either need to be ok with keeping the whole ≈vm alive, or have a really old school shared database setup alá 2004 web hosting… Maybe it's no problem, but feels kinda icky? But regardless, I agree with you. I can spin up the cheapest fly.io machine for 2 usd / month, or some DO droplet/function, but neon and these guys are either free or 20. It always feels better paying a bit than nothing. I know CockroachDB has some serverless > 0 (but cheap) pricing https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing/