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I'm guessing the appeal of such services is "hassle-free" deployment? Because I really don't get it.

My DigitalOcean instance is 2 GB RAM, 30 GB disk. With backups it costs $11.40/month. And yes, I'm free to run whatever on it, be it Postgres or Redis or...

To have an equivalent on Render would be 3-4 times more expensive?

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This is basically hosted redis, it looks like. It's like any other hosted db. It means they take care of monitoring, backups, configuration, fixing stuff that goes wrong, etc. RDS is the same idea and people spend a fortune on it.

With Platform as a Service (PaaS) you are paying a premium for isolating the problem to an individual component which is down. You can either spend a few hours going through the logs or have PaaS vendor let you know that problem is not at their end so that you can spend time isolating the issue.

Our you can pay the premium and have that vendor lie to you. Some of us have pretty bed experiences with cloud support teams.

FWIW I've contacted the Render support team a few times and they have been very responsive.

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