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Reliability: It’s not great
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Re: Reliability: It’s not great
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a nutshell if you offer cloud services you need to be better than the MAG clan, Digital Ocean too. And people will want it dirt cheap. It’s still hard to be a profitable web host as it always was (MAG has the advantage that none of them were web hosts at first base)
MAG?
microsoft apple google
Re: Reliability: It’s not great
#133Fundamentally I think some of the problems come down to the difference between what Fly set out to build and what the market currently want. Fly (to my understanding) at its core is about edge compute. That is where they started and what the team are most excited about developing. It's a brilliant idea, they have the skills and expertise. They are going to be successful at it. However, at the same time the market is…
I'm a co-founder at Northflank. This is what we've spent 3+ years building. https://northflank.com.
I am sympathetic with much of Kurt's post. We spent a long time building solutions to several of the areas highlighted (managed PG, persistent volumes, secret management and service discovery).
Making radical changes to architecture on a live cloud platform is always a challenge.
On the front-end Northflank is a next-gen PaaS built for high DX, speed, and powerful capability (real-time UI, API, CLI, GitOps, IaC).
Our backend is built using Kubernetes as an OS: providing a huge amount of flexibility on service discovery, load-balancing, persistence/volumes and scale.
The benefit of using Kubernetes is a universal API across all major cloud providers. We can scale clusters and regions across EKS, GKE and AKS in seconds, either in our managed PaaS or inside our customer's own cloud account.
Our managed dataservices: MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Mongo, Minio are all built using Kubernetes Operators with a small but mighty team.
From a generous free tier to autoscaling to managed postgres and other advanced PaaS/DevOps automation workflows Northflank offers something unique.
Re: Reliability: It’s not great
#134Re: Reliability: It’s not great
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a nutshell if you offer cloud services you need to be better than the MAG clan, Digital Ocean too. And people will want it dirt cheap. It’s still hard to be a profitable web host as it always was (MAG has the advantage that none of them were web hosts at first base)
MAG?
Microsoft (azure)
Amazon (aws)
Google (gcloud)
Re: Reliability: It’s not great
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Render.com is another spiritual successor of Heroku. I'd love a world where Fly and Render are both very successful companies.
Not gonna happen. Both will get acquired because that’s how things work now
(Render founder) I'd love to understand why you think this is the only outcome. Render has positive gross margin and a clear path to profitability based on both our growth so far and the tailwinds in this space. I'm also aware of other companies like ours that have grown all the way to IPO or are well on their way.
I'm very explicit both internally and externally that an acquisition is a failure mode for Render. We're building this for the very long term and plan to keep it that way.
Re: Reliability: It’s not great
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a nutshell if you offer cloud services you need to be better than the MAG clan, Digital Ocean too. And people will want it dirt cheap. It’s still hard to be a profitable web host as it always was (MAG has the advantage that none of them were web hosts at first base)
MAG?
I’m assuming Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, but it’s new to me too
Re: Reliability: It’s not great
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a nutshell if you offer cloud services you need to be better than the MAG clan, Digital Ocean too. And people will want it dirt cheap. It’s still hard to be a profitable web host as it always was (MAG has the advantage that none of them were web hosts at first base)
MAG?
From context, I'm assuming Microsoft / Amazon / Google, referring to Azure / AWS / Google Cloud respectively.
Re: Reliability: It’s not great
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a nutshell if you offer cloud services you need to be better than the MAG clan, Digital Ocean too. And people will want it dirt cheap. It’s still hard to be a profitable web host as it always was (MAG has the advantage that none of them were web hosts at first base)
MAG?
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not using gcp anymore because it's not worth risk losing access to my personal gmail account just to play around with pet projects. I might be paranoid, but I just don't feel comfortable when there's so much in play.
Create a new Gmail account?
Google associates different accounts that are from the same owner when handling issues FYI. So if they think your account is doing something wrong on GCP, be wary of associated accounts.