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blog.notmyhostna.me · Dec 6, 2025

What I wish existed for self-hosted databases

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In a recent discussion on HN I've mentioned that self-hosting databases is still a bit of a pain compared to running one on a cloud hoster. Someone asked "why" so I thought I'll just quickly write it down here. Running something like Postgres on a server is easy. You either install some package and start the service, or you run it in Docker. This is just a small part of the task though, after that…

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