what's suspend database feature used for?
hello, I'm on launch plan, and there is setting to suspend database, and its till active (checked by default) even I upgrade to launch plan
but what exactly this used for?
isn't it better to not have cold star?
thankyou
8 Replies
grumpy-cyan•2y ago
to not have any compute cost for when the db is not used
extended-salmonOP•2y ago
I don't understand, isn't 2CU already included for a month on the launch plan?
grumpy-cyan•2y ago
the launch plan has 300 compute hours included
1x Month has 720 hours so you would only be able to be able to run the db all the time with 0.5 vcpu
[compute hours] = [compute size] x [hours your compute runs]
so 0.5 * 720 = 360 compute hours 60 more then included
for the scale plan you can run it all month long on 1 vcpu without any additional costs
except if you would add a read only compute
extended-salmonOP•2y ago
sorry, but do you think the price are basically the same as planetacale lowest plan?
grumpy-cyan•2y ago
I'm not sure, the scale plan for example has 50gib included, planetscale has only 10gb included so yeah I can't really tell sorry
extended-salmonOP•2y ago
I see
anyway, thankyou for the explanation
grumpy-cyan•2y ago
https://canary.discord.com/channels/1176467419317940276/1233180936884195420/1233180936884195420 you could check this out
goes a bit more in depth
typical-coral•2y ago
As Flo said, to save compute hours. For production you might not want to use it, depending on how sensitive your application is to latency on cold starts.
It's very useful in development/test/preview environments. You only pay when you actually use them.