Managed PostgreSQL in Naira — Database Hosting for Nigerian Developers

Every Nigerian developer who has used Supabase, Neon, PlanetScale, or AWS RDS has lived through the same invisible tax: you pay in dollars, the exchange rate moves, and your database bill quietly becomes ₦12,000 more expensive than it was three months ago — without any warning, without any new usage.

There is now a different option. OneBit Deploy offers managed PostgreSQL billed entirely in naira, on Nigerian infrastructure, with no FX markup. Here is what that means in practice.

The FX Problem With Foreign Postgres Providers

When you spin up a Postgres instance on a US-based platform, you are agreeing to:

• Dollar billing (your cost moves with the naira/dollar exchange rate)
• Foreign card requirements (many platforms block Nigerian Verve/Mastercard cards)
• Latency from a cluster hosted thousands of kilometres away

If you are building for Nigerian users, your app's database should be close to your users. And your database bill should be predictable in the currency your business earns in.

What OneBit Managed Postgres Gives You

OneBit's Hobby tier (₦30,000/mo) includes managed PostgreSQL. Here is what is included:

Honest note: Managed Postgres provisioning is available and listed in our Hobby plan. We are actively hardening our end-to-end automated monitoring for the provision → connect → query flow. We will publish when the canary check passes. In the meantime, our engineering team is reachable for direct setup support.

How to Provision Managed Postgres on OneBit

Step 1 — Sign up or log in

Go to deploy.onebit.ng/register. Hobby plan starts at ₦30,000/mo — paid via Paystack, no foreign card needed.

Step 2 — Add the DATABASE_URL to your app

In your OneBit panel, open your app → Environment → Add variable → add DATABASE_URL with the connection URL shown on your Postgres database's page, under Connection.

Step 3 — Connect from your app

// Node.js example using the pg package
const { Pool } = require('pg');

const pool = new Pool({
  connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
  ssl: { rejectUnauthorized: false }
});

app.get('/data', async (req, res) => {
  const result = await pool.query('SELECT NOW()');
  res.json({ time: result.rows[0].now });
});

Step 4 — Push to deploy

git add .
git commit -m "Add Postgres connection"
git push origin main

OneBit's orchestrator picks up the push and redeploys automatically. DEPLOYING APP — this can take up to 90 seconds.

Pricing: What You Actually Pay

The naira price is the naira price. No exchange-rate surprises in six months. No dollar settlement on your Paystack statement.

Why Not Supabase, Neon or AWS RDS?

These are good products. But they are dollar products:

• Supabase — Dollar pricing, foreign card, US infrastructure
• Neon — Dollar pricing, no Nigerian payment method
• AWS RDS — Dollar pricing, complex setup, built for enterprise budgets

If you are a solo developer or a Nigerian startup billing your customers in naira, every dollar-denominated database is a liability on your balance sheet. OneBit removes that liability.

Start With Managed Postgres on OneBit

Register and deploy (₦) → deploy.onebit.ng/register

Your first app and database on one naira bill. No foreign card. No FX drag.

OneBit Deploy is built for Nigerian developers. We run our own canary checks on the platform — when something breaks, we find it before you do. Questions? Reach us directly at deploy.onebit.ng.