Unsure about when my free tier database will become un-paused & a few questions/statements
- I'm not sure when my database will be unpaused. I don't know if it resets every calendar month or just every 30 days from when I created my database/account.
- The website really needs to be fixed for mobile users. It's very hard to navigate (this was on mobile firefox browser app IOS)
- My website is a serverless flask website and a maps website so this means a lot of requests and new connections made basically for each request to my website. Due to this compute time seems to get swallowed up (possibly more than it should due to the neon and my code i guess.)
- In my opinion this is very expensive for what it is. The free tier is the best out there but to upgrade is kind of ridiculous to me. $19/month could get me my own VPS that I could host more than just a database (not just that but no limits besides hardware) the pricing makes it hard to want to stay with neon. I would love to upgrade if it was cheaper and more fair.
- It would be nice if we were able to download our database (even after allowance is gone)
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inland-turquoise•2mo ago
Thanks for the great feedback!
It would be nice if we were able to download our database (even after allowance is gone)Yes, we're tracking requests around this to see how important this would be. In the meantime, I'm happy to bump your compute / storage limits this months if you need to download your data 🙏
The website really needs to be fixed for mobile users. It's very hard to navigate (this was on mobile firefox browser app IOS)🙏 will pass on to the team!
My website is a serverless flask website and a maps website so this means a lot of requests and new connections made basically for each request to my website. Due to this compute time seems to get swallowed up (possibly more than it should due to the neon and my code i guess.)Check your compute settings for all your branches - make sure you have scale-to-zero enabled and your min-CPU is appropriate. Otherwise, you may over-provision compared to what your app actually needs. Check your prod-branch CPU graph to see usage vs. provisioning as well here.
In my opinion this is very expensive for what it is. The free tier is the best out there but to upgrade is kind of ridiculous to me. $19/month could get me my own VPS that I could host more than just a database (not just that but no limits besides hardware) the pricing makes it hard to want to stay with neon. I would love to upgrade if it was cheaper and more fair.Neon is awesome because of branching, instant restore, and managed Postgres. Check out those features and see if they would enhance your dev workflow, schema migrations, and peace of mind. Otherwise, a VPS is always a good solution for simple projects, absolutely! Any feedback is appreciate. Please keep it coming!
conscious-sapphireOP•2mo ago
could you answer the first question. thank you for responding
inland-turquoise•2mo ago
Sorry, missed! We bill monthly, so the project resets at the end of every month.
conscious-sapphireOP•2mo ago
so calendar date gotcha
dang thats unfortunate for me and my users i have to wait a bit because i didnt know about the compute settings
inland-turquoise•2mo ago
Happy to bump your settings this month or provide a promo code to upgrade. Feel free to DM me your project id!
conscious-sapphireOP•2mo ago
So just to clarify, the only setting that will help me lower my compute usage is "Default compute size"?
inland-turquoise•2mo ago
Default compute size setting only applies for new database branches. You'll also need to check your existing database branches and review their settings.