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What is the self-hosting story I wonder? If we have our own Postgres db (placed in a specific region for compliance), and we put gel onto our k8s cluster as the

by seer 2y ago

What is the self-hosting story I wonder? If we have our own Postgres db (placed in a specific region for compliance), and we put gel onto our k8s cluster as they state in their docs, does it work well? I assume this type of deployment is free right? What features are we missing from their cloud offering? GCP has very cool high availability, backup and monitoring features that I’d hate to loose if we move to their cloud offering. Can you configure which region your data is in? Can you put it behind / inside a VPC? Couldn’t really find that info in the docs / pricing pages.

1st1 2y ago
> What is the self-hosting story I wonder? Fully supported, we have a guide for every popular platform [1]. > If we have our own Postgres db (placed in a specific region for compliance), and we put gel onto our k8s cluster as they state in their docs, does it work well? If you're OK with managing Postgres and your own k8s you won't have a problem. > I assume this type of deployment is free right? Yes, and everything you need for that is Apache 2. > What features are we missing from their cloud offering? A couple: 1. Slow query log: it requires a custom C extension for Postgres (we wish it did not). It's part of Gel and is open source, but it's not allowed to deploy custom Postgres extensions, say, on AWS Aurora. 2. Integrations with Vercel [2] and GH. With our Cloud you get Vecvel Previews set up out of the box. 3. Convenience: we manage Gel Cloud and it's our headache to keep it running for you. :) > Can you configure which region your data is in? We're currently on AWS, but yes, you can configure a region, if you choose to use our cloud. > Couldn’t really find that info in the docs / pricing pages. Good point, I'll use this question as a template to add a Q&A there :) [1] https://docs.geldata.com/resources/guides/deployment https://docs.geldata.com/resources/guides/deployment [2] https://www.geldata.com/blog/seamless-dx-with-vercel https://www.geldata.com/blog/seamless-dx-with-vercel

by seer 2y ago

1st1 2y ago

> What is the self-hosting story I wonder? Fully supported, we have a guide for every popular platform [1]. > If we have our own Postgres db (placed in a specific region for compliance), and we put gel onto our k8s cluster as they state in their docs, does it work well? If you're OK with managing Postgres and your own k8s you won't have a problem. > I assume this type of deployment is free right? Yes, and everything you need for that is Apache 2. > What features are we missing from their cloud offering? A couple: 1. Slow query log: it requires a custom C extension for Postgres (we wish it did not). It's part of Gel and is open source, but it's not allowed to deploy custom Postgres extensions, say, on AWS Aurora. 2. Integrations with Vercel [2] and GH. With our Cloud you get Vecvel Previews set up out of the box. 3. Convenience: we manage Gel Cloud and it's our headache to keep it running for you. :) > Can you configure which region your data is in? We're currently on AWS, but yes, you can configure a region, if you choose to use our cloud. > Couldn’t really find that info in the docs / pricing pages. Good point, I'll use this question as a template to add a Q&A there :) [1] https://docs.geldata.com/resources/guides/deployment https://docs.geldata.com/resources/guides/deployment [2] https://www.geldata.com/blog/seamless-dx-with-vercel https://www.geldata.com/blog/seamless-dx-with-vercel