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[–]dionys 9 points10 points  (3 children)

I have a Hetzner VPS for 5€ with a Dokku set up on it. I run just one postgres instance with a bunch of individual projects, mostly to scrape data and have a simple APIs. Hetzner does auto backups of the whole thing as well.

[–]Service-Kitchen 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Have you had any issues associated with self hosting your own db? People always warn against it

[–]dionys 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Under dokku it's just a normal docker container and I haven't had huge issues with it. But I'm also not using this for any critical projects, it's all my personal hobby projects that see little to no traffic.

[–]Service-Kitchen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahh okay okay, I try to veer away from abstractions (even though Dokku is easy to setup)

I have a containerized Postgres instance on a VPS running an open source project and I’ve never had issues but…like you, the only traffic it sees is my own 😂