Where do you host your SQL Database?
I've worked with Mongo mostly so far and used Atlas which has a generous free tier. For smaller projects, I've used Heroku's PSQL offering. However, I'm planning on a bigger project with a PSQL database and I was wondering what the best place to host it would be? How have your experiences been?
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Ive been using AWS, both professionally and for my side projects for quite a while, so I can definitely recommend their RDS free-tier.
In the free-tier, you'll get a t2.micro instance (1vCPU, 1GB of RAM) and 20GB of storage, which should be more than enough to prove out an idea and probably even support a couple hundred users (depending on what your database needs are of course)
I'd host your SQL database with whichever cloud provider you are using. Keeps it simple (AWS, Azure, GCP, Heroku).
This is also a simple way to keep connections from your project fast and not pay data transfer costs.
I'll note that Heroku's SQL databases were much more expensive than GCP. When we migrated we got a lot more for our money.