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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by quickthrower2 on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:46AM (#34677186)
Why is postgres particularly overpriced in clouds?
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by chazeon on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:54AM (#34678127)
I would suspect it’s because of memory. I remember years ago my cheap 512m mem vps is easily bottlenecked by pg’s memory usage. CPU is idle when idled, memory eat by pg does not get released. Scaling memory is not cheap. Memory is the “scarce” for cloud hosting.
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by margorczynski on Monday February 06, 2023 @11:37AM (#34679964)
Probably complexity + usually the most important data is there so companies are willing to pay the extra to have peace of mind
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