Linode Managed Databases

vincent_s | 134 points

I'd really like access to a tiny, almost free, sql database for personal projects.

The cheapest option here is $15 a month, and similar prices for other cloud managed dbs.

Heroku was nice and I guess is still a good option, but hard to make a usable site on their free tier because of start up time.

Then there's the interesting new option from Cloudflare, D1.

Currently I just run my personal project on AWS lambda + dynamodb. It's free, but using dynamodb for relational data is a little awkward.

groggo | 2 years ago

Linode doesn't seem to come up much. The only submission in the past year that's gotten more than a couple comments is:

Akamai to Acquire Linode (https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-to-acqu...)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30352772

986 points | nycdatasci | 3 months ago | 326 comments

WalterGR | 2 years ago

Seems that Digital Ocean comes up quite a bit on HN; Linode does from time to time... who else is in this market segment?

mikece | 2 years ago

Been wondering how much uptime you get with "these" managed databases? Currently running similar service on Digital Ocean and unsure if extra database nodes are necessary (2 failover nodes increases cost significantly).

l5870uoo9y | 2 years ago

Anyone having experience with contabo.com? I've got a couple of VPS there and so far pretty happy but didn't yet have any more involved interaction with the team or support to fully judge. No managed DBs but object storage as well.

dominicl | 2 years ago

Excited to check this out. I'm a long time Linode user and recently came across some projects that could leverage a managed DB. As always, I find the prices competitive – especially compared to AWS which I was starting to look at again for this component, but now I can try it out here instead.

ivyirwin | 2 years ago

Has anyone tried Linode Bare Metal?

It's been in Beta for literally years now.

https://www.linode.com/products/bare-metal/

tiffanyh | 2 years ago

i've used linode on various projects for a while (my first invoice was in 2013). no complaints.

chasd00 | 2 years ago

Is there a company out there that just does managed databases? Specifically postgres?

0des | 2 years ago

Sad not to see point-in-time-restore for postgres yet, but hopefully it gets added soon.

bizzleDawg | 2 years ago

i love linode and i am going to switch to linode ASAP.

throwaway3221 | 2 years ago