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Corrects facts in the blog post at /blog/choosing-hosting-and-postgres-after-your-first-100-users, which covers hosting and Postgres for an app with its first paying users, shortens its meta title, and adds the app-hosting comparison post to the Compare Prisma links.

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Post, apps/blog/content/blog/choosing-hosting-and-postgres-after-your-first-100-users/index.mdx:

  • Neon point-in-time recovery: the post said it needs a paid plan, which contradicted Neon's plans page. The opening, the table, the disclosure and the FAQ now say Neon restores to an earlier moment on every plan: 6 hours on Free (up to 1 GB of change history), up to 7 days on Launch, up to 30 days on Scale. The opening sentence is split in two and leaves the per-plan windows to the table and FAQ, so "on Free" no longer reads as Prisma's Free plan.
  • Backups: the post said "daily backups", which contradicted the Prisma Postgres backups docs. It now says "a snapshot on each day with database activity", and the table says this is on paid plans.
  • New line in the stack-pair section: "Prisma Compute has been generally available since August 2026."
  • Caching FAQ: cut to two sentences. It says Prisma Postgres has no query cache of its own and that cached reads can be out of date; the Prisma ORM 8 cache middleware and Accelerate text is removed.
  • Removed "At 100 paying users almost nothing needs to change".
  • The VPS table row and the self-hosted Postgres bullet no longer list failover among the work you take on, so the post no longer implies that the managed options provide it. The Prisma Postgres docs have no high-availability or failover statement.
  • The disclosure and "How we compared" now say Neon's restore window was checked again on 2026-10-06, and the Sources list adds Neon's plans page with that date. The disclosure bullet is split into two sentences.
  • metaTitle: "Managed Postgres hosting that scales: hosting and Postgres for your first 100 paying users (2026)" (97 characters) becomes "Hosting and managed Postgres for 100 paying users (2026)" (56 characters). The page title and URL stay the same.
  • updatedAt: "2026-10-06" and an update-history line listing these changes.

Site, apps/site/src/components/sections/compare-links-data.ts:

  • Adds /blog/app-hosting-platforms-with-managed-postgres-2026 (label "App hosting platforms with managed Postgres compared (2026)", which matches that post's metaTitle) to the Compare Prisma links on /postgres, /compute and /pricing. The page returns 200 live. Removes the header note "Add the hosting comparison page here when it publishes."

Sources checked 2026-10-06

  • Neon plans: instant restore on every plan, with the windows above.
  • apps/docs/content/docs/postgres/database/backups.mdx line 13: snapshots on days with database activity. The pricing page: no backups on Free.
  • apps/docs/content/docs/compute/faq.mdx line 9: Compute generally available since August 2026.
  • Prisma Postgres FAQ: no query cache.

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  • check-ai-signs.sh, check-plain.sh and check-staccato.py: clean on the whole post. All 5 internal blog links resolve to existing slugs. Site tests were not run locally (no node_modules in the worktree), so CI covers markdown-parity.test.ts.
  • Claims check: the post makes no claim for Prisma of point-in-time recovery, branching, read replicas, high availability or failover, autoscaling, multi-region or Docker, says nothing about cron on Compute, and does not call Compute beta.
  • Left as they are: the compare-links label for this post is still "Choosing hosting and Postgres after your first 100 paying users", and the Neon post's label is out of date in the same way. Both predate this PR.

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  • Documentation
    • Updated the hosting guide with details on Neon instant restores, Prisma Postgres backup snapshots, and Prisma Compute availability.
    • Revised guidance on self-hosting, VPS hosting, caching, backups, and vendor comparisons.
    • Added a 2026 app-hosting comparison covering Prisma Compute, Railway, Render, Fly.io, Supabase, Neon, and Vercel.

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…s add the hosting comparison

- Neon's instant restore is on every plan (6 hours on Free, up to 7 days
  on Launch, up to 30 on Scale, per neon.com/docs/introduction/plans and
  neon.com/pricing, 2026-10-06); drop the "paid plan" claims.
- Prisma Postgres backups: a snapshot on each day with database activity
  (postgres/database/backups.mdx).
- State that Prisma Compute has been generally available since August 2026.
- Cut the caching FAQ to two sentences with no ORM or Accelerate detail.
- Shorter metaTitle: "Hosting and managed Postgres for 100 paying users (2026)".
- Add /blog/app-hosting-platforms-with-managed-postgres-2026 to the
  Compare Prisma links on /postgres, /compute and /pricing.

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…failover

- Opening: PITR sentence split so "on Free" no longer reads as Prisma's
  Free plan; Neon "can restore to an earlier moment on every plan", with
  the per-plan windows left to the table and FAQ.
- Table: Prisma Postgres snapshots are on paid plans only.
- FAQ: Neon's Free window is capped at 1 GB of change history
  (neon.com/docs/introduction/plans, 2026-10-06).
- Disclosure and "How we compared": Neon's restore window was rechecked
  on 2026-10-06; the disclosure bullet is split into two sentences.
- Caching FAQ: "cached reads can be out of date" instead of "a cache
  costs freshness".
- VPS row and self-hosted bullet no longer mention failover, so the post
  does not imply a managed failover the docs do not state.
- Update history lists the removed lines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The article updates hosting and Postgres recovery guidance, including backup descriptions, plan details, and FAQs. The site adds a link to a 2026 app-hosting comparison.

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Hosting and Postgres comparison

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apps/blog/content/blog/choosing-hosting-and-postgres-after-your-first-100-users/index.mdx
The article revises hosting recommendations and database recovery details. It updates FAQs, sources, and update history, and removes claims about failover and the 100-user threshold.
App-hosting comparison link
apps/site/src/components/sections/compare-links-data.ts
COMPARE_PRISMA_LINKS gains a link and description for the 2026 app-hosting platforms comparison.

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