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Hosting postgres on your own computer is free. Why would you possibly pay someone $8 / month for a postgres instance to replace SQLite? Postgres is free, and super easy to set up.

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We use an embedded postgres in our tests (it is just literally a vanilla postgres), the thing starts up fast and runs great. I'm sure there must be other embedded of examples out there.

I'm sure I could find reasons to use sqlite, but I'd have to find reasons NOT to use postgres if I ever thought I'd need its capabilities.

Right, and if a project is small enough to only need a small app server, it's probably small enough to just run the DB on the same server in the background.

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