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vestal scaffold Jan 6, 2026, 10:11 PM

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As a trial user, I can't seem to change the instance size, it's locked to 2vCPU and 1GB memory (despite the trial supposedly being more limited than that?). My question is if I move to the hobby plan, what can I scale down to? I have one service I need to run 24/7 and want to know if it's possible to do that for $5/mo. I also need postgres running as well.

honest steppe Jan 6, 2026, 10:12 PM

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Pro user here. Min I can scale down to is 0.5 for both:

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I suspect it will be the same for Hobby, I don't see why they would restrict the lower end. I'll see if I can find something conrete.

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Mhm, can't find anything in the docs. Perhaps a team member can confirm. 🙂

vestal scaffold Jan 6, 2026, 10:17 PM

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thanks. so it seems like this would run roughly $15/mo? Thats the least you can spend and run 24/7? So I guess the hobby plan is mainly for "serverless"?

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But wouldnt postgres also need to run 24/7 and can't be serverless? 🤔 What do you see in practice?

honest steppe Jan 6, 2026, 10:19 PM

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I believe you're only charged for active CPU time, and only memory used (both per min)

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So you could have service running 24/7 and not cost you much if it does absolutely nothing.

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I could be wrong. Please someone correct me if that's the case so I can scale down some services 😂

vestal scaffold Jan 6, 2026, 10:19 PM

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interesting, Ill need to take a look into that. So it's based on cpu consumption somehow? It's going to be drinking from the bsky firehose but its only using like 5% of my cpu to do that

honest steppe Jan 6, 2026, 10:21 PM

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I suspect it is because the free tier exists, and you get $1/mo for that.

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...and I have a fair few services on my evaluation project and I'd expect my usage to be much higher than it currently is given all the cores it has.

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