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Comment by jacob-s-son

It’s all fine and dandy, but I wonder why so little discussion around this (mainly high-level comments “DBs are hard”?

> disco provides a "good enough" Postgres addon.

> This addon is a great way to quickly setup a database when Postgres is not mission critical to your system. If you need any non-basic features, like replication, automatic failover, monitoring, automatic backups and restore, etc. you should consider using a managed Postgres provider, such as Neon or Supabase.

How come automatic backups is considered an “advanced” feature?

Also I can’t think of a single application since 2012 that I have worked on that did not have a secondary/follower instance deployed. Also suggesting Neon and friends is fine, but I wonder what is your average latency, Hetzner does not have direct connection to the DCs these databases are hosted.

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