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Cloud Postgres (Beta)—PostgreSQL Clustering in the Clouds Made Simple

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Terribly misleading marketing blurb.

If I read this right then this is not a tool that you can download but a SaaS-addon that works only on one fairly obscure cloud-platform (openhosting.com).

Too bad, I'd happily pay a license fee for a capable OSS(!) Toolchain that integrates well with chef/puppet and any cloud. This is an area that would greatly benefit from standardization - currently everyone rolls their own.

Interesting. I was just looking for a Postgres as a service this morning. I decided to go with https://postgres.heroku.com

EnterpriseDB also offers a semi-managed version of Postgres that can run on your own AWS account: http://www.enterprisedb.com/cloud-database/amazon

We've been using it for nearly a year now and have been pretty happy with it. Very little problems, and anything that has come up we've gotten very fast response on. We're small, so it's just not cost feasible to have a full-time DBA on staff. This is the next best thing I've found.

Looks like OpenHosting launched this on Nov 6th...

I guess pricing info is here?

http://www.openhosting.com/pricing/calculator/

Great, Sometimes i just wish Wordpress would officially support Postgre.

It will never happen. Thousands of plugins and themes are written assuming MySQL.

Great to see Postgres starting to take off in the cloud- I far prefer it over MySQL, but stuff like Amazon RDS has made MySQL more usable.

Very cool: it builds PG clusters so I don't have to! (Can I still bill my clients as if I did the work?)

I still like the idea that my postgre server is on my local network. It could be used for backup.

I just tried their failover feature. It is really compelling. They deliver an IP address for the master. This IP doesn't change during or after a failover. I wonder if they can setup replicas in different availability zones.

Cool. Heroku Postgres could use a challenger.

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