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What size dataset can you fit on that $5 VPS where it handles those queries in reasonable time? Serious question, all the $5 VPS' I've seen are too low spec to get anywhere with them. Eg a digital ocean $6/mo VPS will get you a single measely gig of RAM and a 25 GiB SSD. Without being more explicit about "realize there more included" is a $5 VPS really even a valid point of comparison?

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1 million requests in a month is ~0.4 requests per second.

With the Prisma pricing, $1k gets you up to a 48req/s load average, and that's without the geo balancing. For a little more you can get a dedicated Postgres instance with 128GB memory and 1TB+ of disk on DO that would definitely handle magnitudes more load.

Of course there are a bunch of trade-offs, but as the original poster said the gap is pretty wide/wild.

Anything with indexes will be completely fine. Hell, your little instance can probably do hundreds of primary key lookups every second. How fast would you burn through your query allowance on Prisma with that?

The point is that when I buy managed postgres, the thing I expect to be paying for is, well, postgres. Not a bunch of geo load balancing that I’m never going to need.

That’s why the comparison is with the thing that actually does what I want.

On hetzner it gets you at least 4 cores, 8GB RAM and 80GB local SSD. For $49 you can almost get a dedicated server with 8 cores and 64GB RAM. More than enough to handle that load Edit: this is for $8 but general point still stands

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