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Supabase self hosting: the small Supabase stack beside the far larger operational work it brings, TLS, proxy, server OS, upgrades, backups and logs.
App Hosting

Is Self-Hosting Supabase Worth It? The Real Cost in 2026

Supabase self-hosting is easy to start and expensive to own, and most of what it costs you is not money. …

Dr. Somya Hallan Aug 19, 2026 18 mins read
ClickHouse MCP tool counts compared: 3 tools for self-hosted or third-party ClickHouse, 13 for ClickHouse Cloud only, all read-only.
AI Database Operations

ClickHouse MCP: An Honest Look at the 3-Tool Limit

A ClickHouse MCP server lets an AI client query your ClickHouse in plain English. Every option available today is read-only, …

Dr. Somya Hallan Aug 17, 2026 22 mins read
Clickhouse pricing comparison showing the monthly cost difference between a workload running 6 hours a day and 24/7
Cloud Database Costs

ClickHouse Pricing 2026: The Real Cost of Running It 24/7

ClickHouse Cloud’s Basic tier costs $66.52 a month at six active hours a day, and $186.27 a month at 24/7. …

Dr. Somya Hallan Aug 10, 2026 20 mins read
Diagram explaining Supabase pricing with one organization sharing a single Pro subscription and pooled quotas while each project has its own compute cost.
Cloud Database Costs

Supabase Pricing 2026: What $25 Really Gets You

Updated and Verified: November 2026 Supabase pricing runs from $0 to $599 a month before you touch a single usage …

Dr. Somya Hallan Aug 6, 2026 24 mins read
Postgres to ClickHouse architecture showing PostgreSQL as the system of record, ClickHouse for analytical reads, and CDC or bulk load between them
Database Infra

Postgres to ClickHouse: 5 Proven Ways to Move or Sync Data

Most teams that move from Postgres to ClickHouse never actually leave Postgres. They split the workload: Postgres keeps the transactional …

Dr. Somya Hallan Jul 30, 2026 18 mins read
Best Time-Series Database comparison for 2026 analyzing nine high-performance database engines
Database Infra

Best Time-Series Database in 2026: 9 Engines Ranked

There is no single best time-series database. For most teams, the answer is TimescaleDB if you want to stay in …

Dr. Somya Hallan Jul 27, 2026 14 mins read
Best real-time analytics database comparison for 2026, including ClickHouse, Apache Pinot, Apache Druid, SingleStore, Tinybird, and TimescaleDB
Database Infra

Best Real-Time Analytics Database: The 2026 Shortlist

For most teams, the best database for real-time analytics is ClickHouse, a columnar OLAP engine built for sub-second aggregations on …

Dr. Somya Hallan Jul 21, 2026 17 mins read
Managed ClickHouse service comparison showing Selfhost.dev dedicated ClickHouse at $56.46 per month versus ClickHouse Cloud at $173 per month.
Database Infra

Best Managed ClickHouse Service: 6 Honest Picks (2026)

ClickHouse is the fastest open-source OLAP database most teams will ever run, and standing it up yourself is close to …

Dr. Somya Hallan Jul 15, 2026 20 mins read
AWS RDS alternatives comparison for 2026 showing Amazon RDS with a much higher monthly database cost than Selfhost.dev for the same database workload.
Cloud Database Costs

AWS RDS Alternatives: The Honest 2026 Shortlist

If you are searching for AWS RDS alternatives, it is usually not because RDS stopped working. It is because the …

Dr. Somya Hallan Jul 13, 2026 25 mins read
PaaS pricing comparison 2026: Selfhost.dev at $14/mo flat versus $40 to $60 on most alternatives for a full-stack app with a database.
App Hosting

PaaS Pricing Comparison: What 7 Platforms Cost (2026)

Every PaaS prices the one resource that is cheap, compute, and quietly meters the three that are not: the database, …

Dr. Somya Hallan Jul 8, 2026 28 mins read
Illustration showing why Postgres with pgvector is often the best vector database for RAG, avoiding the complexity of dedicated vector databases and sync pipelines.
Vector Databases

Best Vector Database for RAG in 2026: The Honest Verdict

Every guide to choosing a vector database for RAG hands you the same overwhelming lineup: Pinecone, Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, Chroma, …

Dr. Somya Hallan Jul 3, 2026 16 mins read
pgvector vs Pinecone comparison showing one database architecture with PostgreSQL and pgvector versus a two database architecture using PostgreSQL and Pinecone.
Vector Databases

pgvector vs Pinecone (2026): Do You Actually Need a Dedicated Vector Database?

pgvector costs nothing to start. Running Pinecone in production starts at a $50-a-month minimum, then bills by usage on top. …

Dr. Somya Hallan Jul 2, 2026 16 mins read
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