Ask HN: Do you self-host your database?

Re:Ask HN: Do you self-host your database? by dataflow on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @02:47AM (#27672657)

> self hosting your database (even in the cloud)

> my data is far too valuable to put in the hands of a third party

Confused, you self-host "in the cloud" without a third party involved? What does that mean? Are you not counting the party hosting your machine?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you self-host your database? by ehutch79 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @02:56AM (#27672717)

They're talking about running the db on a vm, setting it up and tuning it themselves. As opposed to a managed solution which is setup and tuned and hosted on a vm controlled by another company.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you self-host your database? by dataflow on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:19AM (#27672852)

I'm still unclear on if the VM here is on a machine they own/on their own premises? Or is it under someone else's control? "In the cloud" sounded like the latter but it sounds like the intention was the former?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you self-host your database? by eric4smith on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:05AM (#27673510)

It means when you use the database service from AWS, they provision the machines and the replication and the database themselves.

Whereas you can get a machine on AWS and setup the database yourself.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you self-host your database? by s_fischer on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @08:55AM (#27675123)

They are talking about renting a VM from a cloud provider and setting up the DB themselves (example: EC2) vs renting a fully managed DB from a cloud service provider (example: RDS).

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Re:Ask HN: Do you self-host your database? by dataflow on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @06:51PM (#27682793)

But if you're running on a VM from a cloud provider isn't your data still in the hands of a third party..??

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