Ask HN: How do you host cheap relational databases?
I like building prototypes which might only have less than 10 users but need to be deployed to the public. Often I use dynamodb because the cost of this kind of load is nearly nothing, but because with dynamo you design your schema based on access patterns, I don't find it well-suited to a prototype where the access patterns change all the time. My problem is the relational dbs I've seen cost usually a min. $40/month, which is too much, especially considering I often have 10+ prototypes at once. Any ideas?
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Vultr has one-click deploy containers.
- colocate it with the service itself
- use (for example) fly.io where you can host a tiny one for free next to your service.
- use sqlite so you don't even have a separate service
- run aurora serverless https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/
This is a preview of WunderBase, an open source "Serverless" Database using SQLite as the storage and HTTP (GraphQL) as the interface.
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