Hi everyone!
Quick question here: is there any plan to allow a managed Postgres cluster to scale down to zero machines to reduce costs?
In the UI dashboard I read
The prices shown are for a full month of uptime. You’re only billed for the resources you use.
But I can’t find any way to customize any scale-down policy, either in the UI or in the fly CLI. How can I experience an uptime lower than the full month, when needed?
we don’t have any plans for this. I’ll have to check with the team regarding the specific wording, but I think it is meant to say that you won’t pay the full price if you delete the database in the middle of the month.
Good question, I was just wondering about that too. Got started with fly in the last couple of days and had a great experience so far, really like the platform and made good progress.
One thing I’m not quite sure about yet is how I’m going to manage development / staging environments. Ideally I’d like them to match production but need to think about how to manage costs in the early stage of our project.
It would be awesome to have auto scale to zero at some point, but I guess in the meantime its either trigger destroying / redeploying the environment on a timer, or using a different db for those envs.
Thanks for the quick answer, @lillian, I appreciate it!
I agree with @steveoimd , I would love a way to scale managed Postgres to zero too, as it was with the un-managed one.