alt Hacker News> We haven't felt the need to set up auto fail-over to the hot spare; that would take some extra effort (and is included with AWS equivalents?) but nothing I'd be scared of.
this part is actually scariest, since there are like 10 different 3rd party solutions of unknown stability and maintanability.
I think if something like that is worrisome, I'd contact a PostgreSQL consultant for advice.
AWS charge about $500/month for this, so there's plenty of room to pay a consultant and still come out way ahead.