[HN Gopher] The Answer Is Postgres; the Question Is How?
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       The Answer Is Postgres; the Question Is How?
        
       Author : brandur
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-02-08 18:45 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | benburton wrote:
       | I think the question is actually "what is this company trying to
       | sell you?"
        
       | Doctor_Fegg wrote:
       | > Postgres on Virtual Machines: The "Old" Standard
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       | That's "old"? What's Postgres on my Hetzner box then -
       | "prehistoric"? Because it works great for me.
        
         | craigkerstiens wrote:
         | I'm not 100% positive about Hetzner, but suspect much of it is
         | is actually on a VM, and would indeed be old standard. Back at
         | Heroku we were in the very early days of carving up databases
         | within containers. Containers themselves very much were not
         | mature enough at the time (10 years ago), but the underlying
         | primitives of lxc and cgroups we could mostly get to work. At
         | the time though, and this was still just 10-12 years ago we had
         | people actively debate that VMs on AWS weren't suitable for
         | databases...
        
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