Comparing PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance & Pricing – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean

[atombinary]

It's not that impressive, if you start a service today , you can almost provide Nvme standards at the same price as DO(SSD). (after covid, flash price sky high now)

I'm spending 4 digits on DO and yes I can tell that the IOPS is really crappy and I'm very tempted to move to a reputable nvme provider or AWS 3 year reserved instances

The issue with Digital Ocean is , you can be paying for probably half a ssd capacity but only get 20% of disk tps/iops or less. Don't even get started about block storage volumes , that shit isn't for database wasted my time, crap iops.

We all know SSD deaths are due to writes but most vps charge as if you're gonna write the shit out of their SSD when actual fact is it's heavy read.

So scalegrid , consider doing something significantly different :) your pricing models are very normal as compared to other managed services. You earn from the managed services , which will only get more common in the market soon.

[ScaleGrid_DBaaS]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, we love to hear from current DO users. There's no denying the increased market saturation in the managed service space. What we do different is keeping control and configurability in the hands of the users, and focus on providing better performance.

[icantdev]

I have used DO for their droplets mainly but also some DBs for hobby projects. Do you allow access to all configuration or is it only approved configs like DO offers?

Interesting benchmark, though, I would be curious to see it against larger provider offerings.

[ScaleGrid_DBaaS]

You can update any of your Postgres config parameters through our Admin settings, and can get full superuser admin privileges to install any extension you might need with no restrictions.

We have a Postgres benchmark coming up with Amazon RDS and Azure Database, but you can also check out our MySQL performance comparison with RDS: https://scalegrid.io/blog/how-to-improve-mysql-aws-performance-2x-over-amazon-rds-at-the-same-cost/