Making 768 servers look like 1

Re:Making 768 servers look like 1 by anonzzzies on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:28AM (#48932639)

Well, they are selling this thing so they don't want you to buy a big server (with a read replica) as that's much cheaper.

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Re:Making 768 servers look like 1 by farslan on Thursday July 16, 2026 @09:03AM (#48933931)

That's not true! We have demand for bigger machines and we also sell them. You can go checkout the PlanetScale website. See: https://x.com/samlambert/status/2077197049129587150

There are truly customers that bigger machine no longer cuts.

Disclaimer: I'm an Engineer at PS.

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Re:Making 768 servers look like 1 by anonzzzies on Thursday July 16, 2026 @02:46PM (#48938553)

I did not say there is no market, but I am willing to bet whatever that the majority of your client base would be much cheaper off with a simple setup where they can scale the entirety of their company’s existence with one machine. Not even a large one. This cloud stuff has its place but not for most. For them it’s either themselves overspending or wasting VC money.

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Re:Making 768 servers look like 1 by bddicken on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:05AM (#48935597)

We have tons of customers who do exactly this. It's great. Sharding is for customers who out grow this path.

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Re:Making 768 servers look like 1 by groundzeros2015 on Thursday July 16, 2026 @07:10PM (#48941488)

Why would multiple machines be cheaper than one? Don’t you pay an overhead per machine?

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