I saw AlloyDB is being promoted on Google cloud. https://cloud.google.com/products/alloydb?hl=en Price of it is cheaper than the PostgreSQL. Per this article [image] AlloyDB vs. self-managed PostgreSQL: a price-performance comparison | Google... Compared to self-managed PostgreSQL on …

I tested on Aurora when it launched the PostgreSQL compatibility and it worked pretty well back then, so I assume it will be the same here. That said, Discourse scales pretty well on a single managed PostgreSQL vertically, so I’m interested in how much activity you see that trying something like th…

Which instance type are you using for the GCP PostgreSQL instance?

Our current one is this: vCPUs: 8 Memory: 64 GB SSD storage: 596 GB Enterprise Plus edition Data Cache is enabled (375 GB)

That’s enormous. How many active users do you serve?

On admin dashboard, daily participating user is about 2.5k. I ran this query with count and got 28k. [image] Data explorer query for all active users (Lurkers + Posters) Data & reporting This should give you every user that have either read whilst logged in o…

Did anybody tested AlloyDB on Google Cloud?

Product Support Self-hosting

jimmy0017 October 16, 2025, 6:13pm 3

Yeah.. that’s true..

The only incentive for us was the price seems to be a bit lower.

Topic		Replies	Views
Aurora I/O Self-hosting hosting	7	914	February 7, 2023
Running Discourse on Google Cloud for 2 months now in docker Praise	2	1456	October 29, 2021
Discourse on Google compute engine Self-hosting hosting	27	11611	November 27, 2020
Hello from Gitpod! (installing on google cloud + automated dev setup) Self-hosting	23	4682	June 9, 2020
Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant Elephant: Upgrading Discourse to PostgreSQL 13 \| Blog Blog	0	964	April 2, 2021

Did anybody tested AlloyDB on Google Cloud?

Related topics