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Managed database or run it myself?
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The comparison that matters is not price per month:
| Managed | Self-hosted | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost at 100 GB | higher | lower |
| Backups | included, tested | your job |
| Failover | minutes | your job |
| 3am pager | theirs | yours |
Self-hosting wins on invoice and loses on the hours you cannot schedule. Below one full-time operator, managed is usually cheaper in the currency that runs out first.