> the PaaS route certainly burns more money,

Does it? Vercel is $20/month and Neon starts at $5/month. That obviously goes up as you scale up, but $25/month seems like a fairly cheap place to start to me.

(I don't work for Vercel or Neon, just a happy customer)

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cpursley 6 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah, also a happy neon customer - but they can get pricy. Still prefer them over AWS. For compute, Fly is pretty competitive.

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theaniketmaurya 6 days ago | parent [-]

I’m using Neon too and upgraded to the scale up version today. Curious, what do you mean rhat they can get pricey?

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Aeolun 5 days ago | parent [-]

Like, you keep your server running for a month and you need to pay $255 pricey? I can get about 64 cores of dedicated compute for the price of a single neon compute (4c/16gb) unit.

And that’s before you factor in 500gb of storage.

	▲	cpursley 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		And how much time are you spending babysitting all of this? What’s your upgrade, deploy and rollback story? Because I don’t have to even think about these things.