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Do you pay for database storage?

Madza on January 08, 2021

Data is a significant resource that lies in the heart of almost every business. When the business grows, the data grows too and it's important to have enough storage for it.

Are free plans generous enough for your personal projects or do you pay for the storage space?

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Yoginth

Not for now! I’m using the same server for database too, for security entire instance is backed up and pushed to S3 every 10 mins

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Levi Velázquez

My recommendation, be careful, having everything within the same instance is not a good practice. But, of course, depends if it is a test app or a production one.

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Yoginth

Thanks, @madza and @levivm , I'm started working on to replicate the Instance to DigitalOcean Database right now!

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Levi Velázquez

Perfect :) it would get better and better.

I see you are developing your own app, here, there is a post I made about coding best practices. Hope it could be helpful.

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Yoginth

Thanks a lot Levi, I'll sure take a look, Here is our codebase you can take a look to how I'm running an production app with 300 users.

gitlab.com/taskord/taskord

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Levi Velázquez

Oh fantastic, I'll take a look, also, I can help you if you want to have a more complex infra, are u hosted in AWS ? or Digital Ocean ?

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

I am considering paying for

  • Backup
  • Features (Postgres, rather than MongoDB. Maybe also Elasticsearch.)
  • Self hosting (Digital Ocean)

Storage size is not yet a problem for me. Problems are more of CPU / RAM / features.