Imagine paying $250+/mo for 32GB of RAM and 4 VCPUs. No wonder Amazon is swimming in cash, the markup on this is bonkers.
https://www.latitude.sh/pricing/c2-small-x86?gen=gen-2
hetzner doesn't even have specs this low from what i can tell!
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/#cores_threads_...
Or, for 184eur/mo you can get one of their bare metal GPU offerings with 64GB of RAM, a i5-13500 and an RTX4000.
And that’s the per second pricing applied 24/7 for a month. A year commitment takes 30% off.
Still a big markup, but a lot of these comparisons are the the on demand instant on/off price.
You must have the data upfront, you cannot build this in an incremental fashion
There is also bo mention on how this would handle updates, and from the description, even if updates are possible, this will degrade over time, requiring new indexing batch
Engineers who started their career during the cloud craze and don't know anything else are also not the kind to rock the boat, lest the cash cow dies and their whole "investment" in their career becomes useless.
Not every use case requires 100% uptime
And yes, i agree, the PG failover setup (and especially dealing with a failure afterwards, to restore the ex-master is beyond infuriating).
But its not pay 10x the amount, while eating easily 10x performance infuriating :)
Rent your VPS and add in extra volumes for like $10 per 100GB.
