Supabase Pricing Help
Supabase free does not come with backups of the database & the jump is $25 to get backups. It is possible to use a provider such as Render with Supabase free or do I have to pay $25 just to get backups
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Isn't render a hosting provider? you can do your own backup as you have direct access to the database.
Yes it is, so I’m thinking I use Renders DB & use it instead of Supabases? Can I do that?
As in can I change the connection string
It's still unclear what you are asking here. Are you asking if you can use Render instead of Supabase for database? or are you asking if you can use Render's database with the hosted Supabase setup?
Okay, I’ll try & reword it.
Can I use Renders database with the hosted Supabase setup?
Here’s some detail on this issue.
Supabase is not a database as far as I understand, it’s a BaaS similar to Firebase that contains a database (PostgreSQL).
I want to use the Render PostgreSQL database with the hosted Supabase app.
So when I use the Supabase API, it reads/writes to the Render database
Does that make sense?
This isn't possible with the hosted version of Supabase, you should however be able to do this with the self hosted version. The hosted version comes with the database as part of the service. You can use Supabase Auth, Storage and Edge Functions without the database, but you can't make use of the database parts of the supabase-js library without using Supabase as your database provider unless you are self hosting the Supabase stack.
That's reasonable! I will look into self hosting or perhaps making a script that will do backups for me! Thanks for all the help @silentworks, you're awesome 🙂