and I’m still using regular postgres just fine for over a decade and no plans to stop any time soon
serverless has mostly been hype and snake oil for me
Nothing beats a beefy box of metal
serverless has mostly been hype and snake oil for me
Nothing beats a beefy box of metal
Why wouldn't you use some cloud offering where you can get many of these for cheap if your data is not large?
Few people run everything themselves. Most use existing datacenters or rent the hardware. Then its basically the same as using a VPS from a cloud provider when it comes to difficulty and expertise.
"cheap" is relative, if your data is not large (gigabytes) then cost will likely be much smaller compared to expenses on engineer supporting custom solution.
> if the uptime is less than 99.95 %
It doesn't mean their services experience this downtime. They have their reputation supporting revenue on the line. Customers will go somewhere else if experience frequent downtime.
But the point is that with custom pgsql installation it is nontrivial to setup and support any kind of fault tolerance, plus you have a chance of all other kind of outages: network, your hosting provider, etc.
Buying cloud offering with one click looks like no brainer base line.