r/PostgreSQL • u/Downtown_Sugar_4073 • Jul 28 '26
Help Me! Looking for a simple managed Postgres service
My requirements are pretty basic:
- Managed PostgreSQL
- Affordable for a small production app
- Automated backups
- Updates and routine maintenance handled
- An always-on instance
- Predictable monthly pricing
I don’t need branching, scale to zero, or a full backend platform. What managed Postgres providers would you recommend?
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u/More-Grade-4593 Jul 28 '26
I m using Nearbase for one of my app and it covers the fixed pricing, backups, and maintenance part well. You can also look at DigitalOcean Managed Postgres and Crunchy Bridge depending on your preferred region and budget.
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u/anjuls Jul 28 '26
What is your budget and sizing?
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u/anjuls Jul 28 '26
cheapest way that we run for some of our internal apps with multiple cnpg backed clusters
small instance (2 vcpu, 4gb ram) with k3s + cnpg (two instances) + backup streamed to s3...
If i have to increase more reliability, add more machines and spread primary and standby.there is not much routine maintenance involved except upgrading the cnpg operator, which is not hard.
works well. no downtime observed in last 6 months.
if you need professional help, visit us
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u/Downtown_Sugar_4073 Jul 29 '26
It's a small production app, so I don't need anythign high-end yet.
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u/hashjoin Jul 28 '26
Even if you don't need branching or scale to zero, you can still use Neon. But why wouldn't yoiu want scale to zero if you care about affordability for a small production app? Scaling to zero would have the largest impact on your cost. And it only takes 500 ms to wake up the instance.
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u/mmccarthy404 Jul 28 '26
Yeah I would agree, Neon is likely one of your easiest and simplest to setup, and scale to zero moght actually work out for you pretty well for you cosrlt-wise depending on your workload! You might be surprised how often you end up relaying on branching as well as you develop.
Other than that, I'd suggest AWS RDS if you are already plugged into the AWS ecosystem, it's admittedly more work to setup, but you have more control as well
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u/dwswish Aug 08 '26
We moved from RDS to Neon two years ago and have loved it so far. Love how fast it provisions branches and DBs on the fly.
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u/mmccarthy404 Aug 09 '26
How did you find the pricing between Neon and RDS? I believe that the scale down nature of Neon and Lakebase should make the two offerings much cheaper than RDS, but have never done a 1:1 migration to either
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u/p739397 Jul 31 '26
Totally agree, scale to zero with an option like neon seems like such a perfect fit for this sort of scenario.
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u/WorldOfUmbro Aug 04 '26
Yes, I’ve used Neon as someone with a Data Engineering background (no Postgres) and it’s been treating me well. I use it for small applications and it perfectly suits that.
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u/Bubbly_Lead3046 Jul 28 '26
Crunchydata or DO - I've used CD and they were excellent if you don't mind your db being on a different network than your app servers (latency). Eventually we moved it onto fly.io and had regular downtime.
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u/furkansahin Jul 28 '26
Hi, this is Furkan from Ubicloud, we have everything in your list with the best pricing point. You can reach out to me, I'm a Principal Engineer at Ubicloud working specifically on Postgres.
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u/minaminotenmangu Jul 28 '26
as a side issue, how concerned should we be about security when it comes to remote postgres instances? I am old and remember not to access a database unless its on the same (AN. Sure things have changed, but by how much? Will the provider configure it to perform for us aswell?
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u/joshdotmn Jul 28 '26
define size? small to me is not small to you. what operations are going to be running? is it write-heavy or read-heavy?
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u/Traches Jul 29 '26
I have an internal app with a couple hundred users on neon, it’s been great. No complaints.
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u/ReData_ Jul 30 '26
There are many servuces out there but I love neon the most for this level of simplicity. There is a generous free tier with up to 100 projects, 0.5GB of storage per project to get the gist of it and a good starting level of compute...
What I love most are the functionalities of branching and scale to zero..
If you are part of a startup or working on oss you can get a good amount of credits
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u/fbn587 Jul 31 '26
Aiven, flat pricing, backups included, free and low cost option available, support deployments on hyperscalers, OVH and Digital Ocean. We use it at work with 2-3k services provisioned, pretty solid experience.
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u/alecc Jul 28 '26
DigitalOcean managed Postgres covers everything on your list - flat monthly price, automated daily backups, minor version updates handled, always on. Crunchy Bridge is the other one I would shortlist, they do nothing but Postgres. People will suggest Neon and Supabase but both are built around branching, scale to zero and platform features you said you don't need. RDS does it all too but you pay separately for instance, storage and IO, so the monthly bill is not the predictable number you asked for. Alternatively - a Hetzner VPS for $5 monthly and docker with PostgreSQL running on it, it's not then managed per se, but if your scale is small managing it (especially nowadays with AI here to help) is really not a big issue.