Good (cheap) alternatives to Planescale
I just found out, that Planescale retires its hobby plan completely. I have small Project that depends on this plan. The volume is not really large and I dont make much money out of it so having a super generous hobby tier was awesome.
There is unfortunately no way I can afford paying $40 a month for this service.
I am open to paying around $10 to max $15, but would love a service that has my usage covered in a free plan.
Can you recommend me hosted database providers (sql) that I could switch to?
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webdevcody put up a vid on how to use railway to setup and migrate your mysql db https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K5Hi03AJJ4
since ps uses mysql there aren't that many other 'DaaS' that you could just drop in without changes to your schema. I'm thinking of either going the VPS route or just using NeonDB and switching my schemas to postgres
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If you can switch to SQLite, Turso is great
I'm trying to see Railway... but I dont yet know how much that would be... However, as soon as any of my sideproject start making money I'm definitely going back to PlanetScale haha
Other than that I think Supabase has 2 free DBs so check that out
+1 on Neon, I've started fresh on it. It has a generous free tier for 1 project and branches like Planetscale if you're cool with Postgres from MySQL. It's 19 dollarydoos for the next tier up
https://neon.tech/pricing
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Neon brings serverless architecture to Postgres, which allows us to offer you flexible usage and volume-based plans.
I've just migrated to Neon, with drizzle it's been pretty easy to migrate, since its all typesafe I can see where features are mismatched between mysql and postgres. Postgres having a larger ecosystem is something to consider too (payload cms, medusa ecommerce, posthog data store all use postgres). Also, one thing I like about Neon is I can have as many databases as I want under 10 different projects, if you're freelance like me seems like I'll be able to put all my clients under one paid account.
Is it not free anyway for "hobby level usage" (just requires adding payment info)
edit: oh, starting April 8, 2024 thats no longer the case...
what about turso and it's edge databases coupled with the next middleware? (and lucia 3 or nextauth 5)