What do you mean by "the usual Postgres installation"?

That and RDS are kind of a rip-off if you are trying to have a sandbox out there, short of running your own instance.

For that, I found Digital Ocean to be very reasonable.

DO’s pricing has increased a lot. I was surprised, I couldn’t start a $5 vm anymore, it’s worth checking again.

You can, but I think you have to be in one of the regions that supports it. The generally (globally?) available lowest priced VM is $6 a month.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets

Yep. I used it once for a personal project involving GHTorrent [0], and each query was about $20. That may be peanuts for a business, but for someone playing around on their own, it's incredibly prohibitive.

[0]: https://github.com/ghtorrent/ghtorrent.org/blob/master/gclou...

What is hardboiled studios?

On billions of records my query costs were generally less than a cent. But I partitioned and clustered on the key fields.

Either the website this is referring to got hacked or you sold it. Either way, this probably shouldn’t be linked on HN.

EDIT: The site no longer exists, it seems. The project (which is not my creation) was a regularly-updated dump of all GitHub metadata (PR comments, Issues, etc.). Here's an archive snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20220126060859/https://ghtorrent...