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Kinda makes you wonder why you need cloud for anything besides remote encrypted backups if you can run all that on 12GB

You don't, but business executives aren't the kind to easily admit they got conned - and if they're getting close to that stage, a nice dinner or golfing session paid by the vendor's representative generally alleviates those feelings very well.

Engineers who started their career during the cloud craze and don't know anything else are also not the kind to rock the boat, lest the cash cow dies and their whole "investment" in their career becomes useless.

what about failover story if server dies? PG failover setup is complicated, and cloud infra handles this for you.

Do we mean managed or PG on K8s like CNPG? In all cases, I use the infra to simplify things like having disk redundancy and failover nodes, not because 12GB is interesting.

Primary managed PG, since you still need setup/maintenance/monitoring on your K8S own solution.

You guys are doing monitoring? ;-)

(Genuine question) What's your current plan for when your cloud provider goes offline? Do you have a failover story, or it a case of "wait for them to come back online"?

I have backups on different cloud provider, so I could bootstrap db if provider goes dark indefinitely.

But realistically, I believe major clouds (google, aws) likely has more robust org and infra for recovery than I can built and maintain.

What are you willing to pay for cloud-native failover?

Not every use case requires 100% uptime

Sure, but those who require (99% of major businesses) are ready to pay.

Is that why most of them go down every time a single provider or even region goes down?

Actual active-active HA of your datastores is really hard to do (CAP theorem and all that). The majority of companies don't do it.

PG doesn't have active-active. Solution is to have multizone failover with replication.

https://github.com/multigres/multigres ... when its complete. From the guy that made Vitess for Mysql.

And yes, i agree, the PG failover setup (and especially dealing with a failure afterwards, to restore the ex-master is beyond infuriating).

But its not pay 10x the amount, while eating easily 10x performance infuriating :)

Because getting any hardware out of infra-team on premise is utterly miserable, across the board.

That's not the only alternative.

Rent your VPS and add in extra volumes for like $10 per 100GB.

Funny thing but netcup has $10 per 1 TB

Netcup is under-rated but there are also other providers too at lowendbox/lowendtalk and I am interested to try out hetzner too sometime.

And if you want to go even cheaper, check out Hetzner their EX63 (go to custom) > 4x 7.68TB drives for like 140 Euro.

Not counting the fact that Netcup is raided (also Netcup is limited to 8TB on a VPS).

That is like 4.7 Euro /TB. That is like 4$/TB. 6 Euro / TB in a raid 5 setup.

I do not understand why they are not using this new pricing model on their older servers. There the best you can get is like 10 Euro /TB (for the single 15TB U.2).

> Funny thing but netcup has $10 per 1 TB

Nice to know, but I was just guessing at what a reasonable price would be :-)

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