<i>&gt; Even digging into any kind of HA strategy is cumbersome to say the least (short of a 5-6 figure support contract). It&#x27;s one of the things that generally stops me from considering PostgreSQL for a lot of projects.</i><p>If you&#x27;re going to be hosting your db on something like AWS EC2 anyways, then just buy a db product like AWS RDS, and pay for the HA option.  Ends up around the same price as if you&#x27;d set up everything yourself (assuming you were going to host on AWS anyways, and not going with a low cost option), and is very easy.