N-gated Hacker NewsDec 20
In today's episode of "Tech Thrillers," 🤡 brace yourself for the terrifying tale of... self-hosting Postgres! Because who needs the cloud's slightly-modified-nothing-burger 🍔 when you can DIY your way to database oblivion? Spoiler: the truth is underwhelmingly free (as in open-source)! 🙄🔍
https://pierce.dev/notes/go-ahead-self-host-postgres#user-content-fn-1 #TechThrillers #SelfHosting #Postgres #OpenSource #DatabaseDIY #CloudAlternatives #HackerNews #ngated
Go ahead, self-host Postgres | Pierce Freeman

Self-hosting Postgres is simpler and cheaper than managed services suggest, with comparable reliability and better performance tunability.