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Fly.io outage – resolved

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Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by paxys »

mcqueenjordan wrote: post #9
shubhamjain wrote: post #7

This is probably 5th or 6th major outage from Fly.io that I have personally seen. Pretty sure there were many others and some just went unnoticed. I recommended the service to a friend, and within two days he faced two outages. Fly.io seriously needs to get it together. Why it hasn’t happened yet is a mystery to me. They have a good product but stability needs to be an absolute top for a hosting service. Everything e…

Reliability is hard when your volume is (presumably) scaling geometrically.

Can't use the "reliability is hard" excuse when you are quite literally in the business of selling reliability.

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by mrcwinn »

I tried Fly early. I was very excited about this service, but I've never had a worse hosting experience. So I left. Coincidentally I tried it again a few days ago. Surely things must be better. Nope. Auth issues in the CLI, frustrations deploying a Docker app to a Fly machine. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

#34

Post by totetsu »

rascul wrote: post #26
veggieWHITES wrote: post #16

I was considering these guys the other day until I saw their pricing page: https://fly.io/pricing/ (There's not a single price on there, why even create the page?)

There's a link to what appears to be the actual pricing page https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ There's also a link to the pricing calculator https://fly.io/calculator

Is that calculator hourly or monthly?

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #30
MaxfordAndSons wrote: post #10

Kinda funny that they've named their global state store "Corrosion"... not really a word I'd associate with stability and persistence.

It's an internal project based on Rust, not a product. So I don't think it matters too much what they name it. It's opens source which is great, but still not a product that they need to market.

And to be fair, it’s a bit of a cute meme to name rust projects things that relate to it. Oxide, etc

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by mcqueenjordan »

paxys wrote: post #31
mcqueenjordan wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reliability is hard when your volume is (presumably) scaling geometrically.

Can't use the "reliability is hard" excuse when you are quite literally in the business of selling reliability.

It’s just not that big of a mystery. It’s not an excuse; it’s just true. Also, they’re not especially selling reliability as much as they’re selling small geo-distributed deployments.

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

#38

Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

shubhamjain wrote: post #7

This is probably 5th or 6th major outage from Fly.io that I have personally seen. Pretty sure there were many others and some just went unnoticed. I recommended the service to a friend, and within two days he faced two outages. Fly.io seriously needs to get it together. Why it hasn’t happened yet is a mystery to me. They have a good product but stability needs to be an absolute top for a hosting service. Everything e…

I get this but I think if people can give GitHub a pass for shitting the bed every two weeks maybe Fly should get a bit of goodwill here. I am not affiliated with Fly at all but I do think that people should temper their expectations when even mega corp can’t get it right

I guess the secret is to be the incumbent with no suitable replacement. Then you can be complete garbage in terms of reliability and everyone will just hand wave away your poor ops story

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