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Ask HN: Is there any great free PostgreSQL provider?

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I've been looking for one for quite a long time, but none of them fit my demands. MySQL is also fine.

Wow, no mention of Railway yet. They don't really advertise it, they allow you to create a Postgres DB as a part of a project and expose it publicly. It's pay as you go and in my tests I haven't been able to scratch the 5$ minimum.

Fly has apparently also recently added this: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DAlperin

Digital Ocean has managed Postgres for $15. I wouldn’t in my wildest fantasies trust a free Postgres provider.

They also have a good tutorial on installing it manually, for one of the cheaper droplets at $4 a month, or on Vultr at $3.50.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...

A Vultr instance running a PostgreSQL container linked with block storage is pretty cheap and easy to set up.

Their managed databases aren't that great unless you're willing to spend $100+/month. The cheap $15 instances are single threaded on oversubscribed hardware. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're okay with queries taking a long time. (Like over a minute when it gets really bad)

There's ElephantSQL, which offers a free tier: https://www.elephantsql.com/

Can confirm. I use most of the main platforms but given the price, ElephantSQL has been rock solid for a small side project I have. If you don't need to store a lot of data, you can use it totally free, though I did have to manually vacuum to keep the usage down for some reason.

Supabase provides a free tier Postgres. There are of course limits to the size, and they will pause your project if it is inactive for 7 days.

https://supabase.com/pricing

For example, https://www.yugabyte.com/ is good. But I really wonder what made it unavailable to connect for all of my apps!

Supabase if you was a managed solution. Great free tier IMO.

It would be interesting to know which providers' free tiers you've tried any why they didn't fit your needs.

Oracle free VPS and deploy Postgres. Meet your own needs

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