Autobase
Postgres failover manager in Hosting & cloud
Free Ansible roles that deploy and manage highly available PostgreSQL clusters on Hetzner, other clouds, or bare metal, and people call it the easiest way to set one up.
6 people recommended Autobase in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
4 of the 6 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Go ahead, self-host Postgres”.
Summary written by Claude from 6 comments.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- mixed feelings
- 0
- warn against or regret it
- 0
The record
Recommended in 4 of 12 months
In 4 different threads.
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 4 threadsNeeds 5 or more, not met.
- 4 of its 6 recommenders came from one threadNeeds half or less, not met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 6 of the 7 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Automates highly available PostgreSQL cluster management
“automates the deployment and management of highly available PostgreSQL clusters in production environments”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres” “something that takes care of all that extra work for you”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres” Runs on clouds, bare metal, VMs
“I also recommend autobase, a set of ansible roles for a highly available postgres cluster on hetzner or other clouds”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Cheap Self-Hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud” “a system-level operator designed to run directly on bare metal or virtual machines”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Containers are great. Kubernetes is great. But [DBA crying]” Default choice for Postgres high availability
“The easiest way to set it up is using Autobase”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres” “autobase[1] is the one I can think of”
Comment from 30 Apr 2026 in “Does Postgres Scale?”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Mixed | Criticize | Approval | Months | Had for | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patroni | 8 | 2 | 3 | 73% | 4 | — | — |
| AutobaseThis page | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 7 opinions about it, picked in proportion to the three counts, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“a system-level operator designed to run directly on bare metal or virtual machines”
“I also recommend autobase, a set of ansible roles for a highly available postgres cluster on hetzner or other clouds”
“autobase[1] is the one I can think of”
“automates the deployment and management of highly available PostgreSQL clusters in production environments”
“The easiest way to set it up is using Autobase”
“something that takes care of all that extra work for you”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.