Agree, I looked at wrong plan, sorry for confusion.
All good! Each tier includes enough compute hours to run a database 24/7. Just with varying levels of CPU/RAM and storage.
Readit Newsshinypokemon commented on Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available neon.tech/blog/neon-ga... · Posted by u/refset
shinypokemon commented on Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available neon.tech/blog/neon-ga... · Posted by u/refset
> For $69/month (Scale)
this also doesn't cover 100% uptime, but only 300h, and you will pay extra for each extra hour.
The Scale plan includes enough hours to run 1 CPU and 4GB of memory for the month.
shinypokemon commented on Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available neon.tech/blog/neon-ga... · Posted by u/refset
Branching the whole database (data included) seems really great. Congrats!
It does seem a bit pricey though. For $69/month (Scale), I could rent a dedicated server with 8 dedicated CPUs, twice the RAM and 20x the storage (and that's physically attached NVMe in raid 1), and have money to spare: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax/
(Neon DevRel)
By all means, self-host Neon and come talk about it in our Discord (https://neon.tech/discord)!
Cheeky jokes aside, you can definitely go down the hetzner/VPS route. Not everyone has the expertise or desire to spend time doing so, but if you do, then go for it I say. We have some nifty features that are non-trivial to recreate, but again, it depends on your needs.
shinypokemon commented on Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available neon.tech/blog/neon-ga... · Posted by u/refset
Neon is so unreliable that they removed the percentages from their status website. A truly bad thing for a data company to do.
(Neon DevRel)
Hey, we do want to add numbers back to that page. The issue was that the original numbers were inaccurate.
"The goal of this metric is to represent the health of a system. However, we found this binary “is there an incident or not” approach wasn’t accurate for describing our service. For example, in the past 30 days, 99.9% of projects hosted on Neon had an uptime better than 99.95%; however, the status page displayed 99.89% uptime."
shinypokemon commented on Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available neon.tech/blog/neon-ga... · Posted by u/refset
Anyone using it in production?
The only issue I've found with Neon is that to use listen/notify the DB needs to be awake 24/7 which defeats the purpose of serverless.
(Neon DevRel here)
This is valid. However, many production databases won't scale to zero often. The serverless proposition is still valuable if you factor in the development, test, and staging environments scaling to zero plus our autoscaling that doesn't require downtime or dropped connections.
For guaranteed message delivery, you're probably best of using a messaging system designed with that in mind instead of listen/notify.
shinypokemon commented on Neon serverless Postgres new pricing plans neon.tech/2024-plan-updat... · Posted by u/mj4e
Seems like this will be a huge price hike for my current use-case (many small infrequently used projects for things like labs, courses, POCs or projects just starting). Neon has not been around for long enough for us to use them on large, customer-facing projects yet. I'm pretty disappointed with a company that until recently I have loved using and have had great communication with.
This really signals a move away from a "pay-for-what-you-use" model (i.e. actually serverless) and towards something where they put arbitrary caps on plans to make you upgrade. Why can't I pay for extra storage or projects on the launch plan? Why do I have to pay for a Scale plan to set my autoscaling timeout lower?!
Hi, I work for Neon. Our product team would like to chat with customers to get their perspective on the changes. If you're an existing Pro Plan user, your email should have a link that you can use to arrange a chat with the team. Feel free to reach out via Twitter or Discord instead if you'd like.
My parents are still using my old 2012 MacBook Pro. Installing an SSD and 16GB of memory a few years ago revitalised it. The last time I used it when visiting them I could see no reason to retire it, but I assume it might lose out on security updates soon.
shinypokemon commented on How our free plan stays free tailscale.com/blog/free-p... · Posted by u/tosh
Could anyone ELI5 to me why I might use tailscale? If I don't have a use case for a VPN is there any use case for this product, or if I did want a VPN, why this and not some other service like Nord?
Asking from a place of curiosity, I don't quite understand this company. I suspect it solves a lot of issues related to provisioning your own networks ... Which would explain why I don't quite get it because I've never done that.
I have some services running on my home network (e.g Kubernetes and some stuff on a Raspberry Pi) that I'd like access when I'm away from home. Tailscale made that really easy. I just setup their client on the devices that need to communicate, and that's it. I can access those devices on my home network from my Macbook when I'm out and about. What's really neat is I can even set my Raspberry Pi as a DNS server for devices in my Tailscale mesh (using their DNS features) and use Pi-hole to setup custom DNS rules for those devices. Wrote a short piece about it here: https://evanshortiss.com/crc-tailscale