Is IONOS's DB Dedicated Core - per core (low end) the best deal?

Entry-level managed Postgres at 1/10th the IONOS price; suitable for small to medium databases with modest traffic.

Caveat: Essential tier has no HA, no fork/follow, and only 99.5% SLA; renewal risk is low but reliability is lower than Standard tier.

Affordable managed Postgres with 99.95% SLA and per-second billing; storage overages at $0.30/GB are transparent and predictable.

Caveat: Shared fractional vCPU and 256MB RAM limit throughput; storage and bandwidth billed separately.

1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 10GB SSD at 1/4 the IONOS price; good for development and small production workloads.

Caveat: Development-tier only, no HA available; egress beyond 75GB/month charged at EUR 0.01/GB.

1 vCPU, 2GB RAM with 99.99% SLA and no renewal trap; storage and backup billed separately but rates are transparent.

Caveat: Burstable tier has no reserved-instance discounts; outbound bandwidth charged above 100GB/month free tier.

1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB SSD with 99.99% SLA; no renewal trap and straightforward per-GB bandwidth overage at $0.005/GB.

Caveat: Standalone (no HA replica); backups are a separate add-on at roughly 20-25% of instance price.