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I can't see where your server locations are, it'd be great to see that. I have some region specific needs.
The regions are listed in the docs: https://fly.io/docs/regions/#discovering-your-applications-r...
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This is a reasonable take. Let’s Encrypt is amazing and we don’t want to diminish their importance at all. We charge for certificates because the infrastructure to make SSL work (even when the certificates themselves are free) is complicated. Managing certificate creation can be tricky, we have to deal with all kinds of edge cases (like mismatched A and AAAA records breaking validation). We also generate both RSA and…
This is a great answer and imo should go in your FAQ [0] because charging for let's-encrypt certs does come off as disingenuous especially when AWS, Netlify, and Zeit and other services offer to do so, for free, despite them having to maintain a PKI which isn't exactly a walk in the park (like you point out). [0] You are missing a FAQs page.
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How are you liking gVisor? We started with Firecracker and only spent a little time with gVisor, but it seems really nice.
I discovered it when looking into runtimes for my Bachelor's thesis. So far it's serving me quite well, especially after they reworked the Sentry file system abstraction (when I started file access was horribly slow). Networking works very well although they reimplemented it themselves. It also allows me to do base image layering using Overlay since I only keep binaries/source code/assets after a successful build.
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The containers on fly.io can go up to 8CPUs. So you can do a lot of computation for images, video etc. They can also accept any kind of TCP traffic (and we're trialing UDP), so lots of interesting network services. This is especially interesting for people who want to do live video. AND we have disks. So you can deploy Varnish, or nginx caches, etc. This is something we enable by hand per app.
I didn't find documentation about the disks: size, ssd/hdd, price?
If you want to try them out, you can create an app and then an email to either me or support at fly.io and we'll turn them on for you.
Let's Encrypt was introduced so that money will never be a barrier/excuse for https. In these days it must be a default feature. Pocketing half for something generated for free is not a good signal for me. Yes other half is donated but, isn't that supposed to be optional? Let's Encrypt is supported by huge organizations. And on fly.io, The customer is already paying for compute.
This is a reasonable take. Let’s Encrypt is amazing and we don’t want to diminish their importance at all. We charge for certificates because the infrastructure to make SSL work (even when the certificates themselves are free) is complicated. Managing certificate creation can be tricky, we have to deal with all kinds of edge cases (like mismatched A and AAAA records breaking validation). We also generate both RSA and…
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(Disclaimer: I am a Fly.io founder) I don't recall us being at Hack Arizona, certainly not me. I googled it and all it yielded was this HN post. Your comment couldn't be further from the truth. I can't speak for whoever used these words (if they did), but I think we have pretty great work/life balance. We all have families of our own and recognize they are far more important than our business. These things happen, su…
Hey! I want to formally apologize -- the company I heard presenting had a name very, very similar to yours. Definitely was not the same company. Unfortunately it's past the 2 hour mark to delete comments on HN, but consider this my retraction of what I said above. Really sorry about the mix up, and what you have going here seems very impressive. Definitely seems like a fantastic attitude towards workers' health and h…
Sorry for wet-blanket (and possibly dumb and obvious!) question, but is this the kind of thing that AWS/GC/Azure are just going to implement their own version of if it turns out to be popular?