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Render is a fantastic replacement

No free psql tier

Fly supports PostgreSQL [1], but it's not managed as you would expect.

[1] https://fly.io/docs/postgres/getting-started/what-you-should...

Use Laravel to generate the api. The boilerplate get you 90% of the way. Host laravel and pgsql on fly for free.

Could do other things like directus (handles the api gen), planetscale has free mysql tier or even using airtable as the db, it provides the api part.

Sorry, what I meant by "not managed" was they just support PostgreSQL as in "yet another executable running on their containers", so they don't actually optimise or configure PostgreSQL for you.

I find Eloquent's approach to disconnect models from migrations a bit dangerous, but it could be me as I don't have much experience with Laravel. PlanetScale/Vitess doesn't support foreign keys, which is nice for distributed (planet scale, ha!) apps, but could be a problem for certain types of applications. I'd rather stick with (stock-ish) PostgreSQL.

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