feat: Consider MySQL & Planetscale switch

[mosesintech]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently we are using Vercel's free postgres database option for our staging deployment (staging.thesynaxis.com), but Planetscale offers great scaling solutions that include recommendations on how to increase the performance of your queries.

The barrier here is that Planetscale no longer offers a free tier.

Describe the solution you'd like to see

If we decide to use Planetscale, then we will need to switch from PostgreSQL to MySQL.

Describe alternate solutions

It seems like whatever option we use for our production database will be a paid option. Even Railway is at least $5/month.

And while $5 is cheaper than $39, if we are paying for this layer of the app we might as well go all in. Chances are we will eventually outgrow that $5/month anyway but jumping to Planetscale will give us a lot more value than any other current option.

Self-hosting is also a possibility, but we would have to manage scaling, optimization, and security entirely on our own and we will still have to pay for this option.

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