What exactly does flyio.net do?
If you mean specifically flyio.net and not just fly.io the company, I'm guessing they host their status page on a separate domain in case of DNS/registrar issues with their primary domain.
Fly.io outage – resolved
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Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#42What exactly does flyio.net do?
IIRC their value prop is that they let you rapidly spin up deployments/machines in regions that are closest to your users, the idea being that it will be lower latency and thus better UX.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#43fly.io just has the weirdest outages. It has issues so regularly we dont even need to run mock outages to make sure our system fail overs work.
In fairness to the fly.io folks (who are extremely serious hackers), they’re standing up a whole cloud provider and they’ve priced it attractively and they’re much customer-friendlier than most alternatives. I don’t envy the difficulty of doing this, but I’m quite confident they’ll iron the bugs out.
The tech is impressive and the pricing is attractive which is why we use them. I just wish there was less black magic.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#44We switched from Fly to CF workers a while ago, and never looked back
congrats on not developing a playbook for the time you have to 'look back'.
Providers will fail. good contingencies won't.
...hears faint sound...I SAID GOOD, QUIET YOU!
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#45We switched from Fly to CF workers a while ago, and never looked back
They are fundamentally different. If Cloudflare provided a way to host docker containers with volumes though, that would be game over for so many paas platforms.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#46What exactly does flyio.net do?
WEB 2.0. SEE. TOLD YA! THEY SHOULDA UPGRADED TO THAT NEWFANGLED 3.0! ;)
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#47We switched from Fly to CF workers a while ago, and never looked back
How are they equivalent?
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#48Yep...can confirm my self hosted Bitwarden there is completely FUBAR connection wise even if it is in EA, so it should be a worldwide outage...lemme guess, some internal tooling error, consensus split brain, or if it looks like someone leaked BGP routes again?
Mine is in Asia and it's still accessible.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#49My fly.io-hosted website went down for 5 minutes (6 hours ago), but then came right back up, and has been up ever since. I use a free monitoring service that checks it every 5 minutes, so it's possible it missed another short bit of downtime. But fly.io has been pretty reliable overall for me!
Would be fascinated to see your data over a period of months.
Application up time is flakey, but what was worse were fly deploys failing for no clear reason. Sometimes layers would just hang and eventually fail for no particular reason; I'd run the same command an hour or two later without any changes and it would just work as expected.
I'd love to make a monitoring service to deploy a basic app (i.e. run the fly deploy command) every 5 minutes and see how often those deploys fail or hang. I'd guess ~5% inexplicably fail, which is frustrating unless you've got a lot of spare time.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#50We switched from Fly to CF workers a while ago, and never looked back
I switched from apples to oranges and never looked back.