Crunchy Data ​

Crunchy is a Postgres hosting provider.

Electric and Crunchy ​

You can use Electric with Crunchy Bridge, their managed cloud Postgres product.

Need context?

See the Deployment guide for more details.

Deploy Postgres ​

Sign up to Crunchy Bridge and go through the steps to create a cluster.

Go to the "Connection" tab, select "URL", set the role to "postgres (superuser)" and copy the connection string.

You can then run Electric with this connection string as the DATABASE_URL, e.g.:

shell
docker run -it \
    -e "DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:****@p.YOUR_CLUSTER_ID.db.postgresbridge.com:5432/postgres" \
    electricsql/electric:latest

You can also use the postgres superuser to create other users with the REPLICATION role, e.g.:

sql
CREATE ROLE electric WITH REPLICATION LOGIN PASSWORD '...';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE "postgres" to electric;

You can then connect as the new electric user.

Need somewhere to host Electric?

If you need somewhere to deploy Electric then Crunchy works well with Render.