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Re:The economics of a Postgres free tier by scosman on Thursday July 11, 2024 @07:35PM (#40941565)
Every one I’ve used is on AWS and will tell you the zone so you can keep things within the region/zone. That includes Heroku, Supabase, Neon, and (obviously) RDS.

That said, I’ve used AWS DBs with Cloudflare pages and the latency isn’t a major issue. If you are running non geo-distributed DB, the DB is a lot further than 10ms away from your average user.

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Re:The economics of a Postgres free tier by danpalmer on Thursday July 11, 2024 @07:56PM (#40941668)
In my experience, applications tend to do far more DB queries than users do backend requests, and as such, 50ms to the user matters much less than the difference between 1 and 10ms on DB queries.

That said, thanks for the experience. Do they also tend to launch in other cloud providers? It seems like it would be a tricky business to navigate, restricting your customer base to specific providers.

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