It is not reflected in their status page, but fly.io itself is not even loading.
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#52It is not reflected in their status page, but fly.io itself is not even loading.
https://fly.io/ loading for me
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#53fly.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.
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#54We switched from Fly to CF workers a while ago, and never looked back
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#55This 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…
The biggest difference is GitHub in your infrastructure is (nearly always) internal. Fly in your infrastructure is external. Users generally don't see when you have issues with GitHub, but they do generally see when you have issues with Fly.
That's the core difference.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#56The series of outages early in 2023 also had some Corrosion-related pain: https://community.fly.io/t/reliability-its-not-great/11253
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#57Kinda funny that they've named their global state store "Corrosion"... not really a word I'd associate with stability and persistence.
I take your point but corrosion-resistant metals such as Aluminum, Titanium, Weathering Steel and Stainless Steel don’t avoid corrosion entirely but form a thin and extremely stable corrosion layer (under the right conditions).
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#58I'm grateful to HN for keeping me well aware of Fly's issues. I'll never use them.
It's still 99.99+% SLA? Would you really pay 100% more for <0.01% more uptime?
I think what a lot of people fail to understand is that there are certain categories of apps that simply “can never go down”
Examples include basically any PaaS, IaaS, or any company that provides a mission-critical service to another company (B2B SaaS).
If you run a basic B2C CRUD app, maybe it’s not a big deal if you service goes down for 5 minutes. Unfortunately there are quite a few categories of companies where downtime simply isn’t tolerated by customers. (I operate a company with a “zero downtime” expectation from customers - it’s no joke, and I would never use any infrastructure abstraction layer other than AWS, GCP or Azure - preferably AWS us-east-1 because, well, if you know the joke…)
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#60fly.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.
When I worked for a company who worked with big banks / financial institutions we used to run disaster recovery tests. Effectively a simulated outage where the company would try to run off their backup sites. They ran everything from those sites, it was impressive. Once in a while we'd have a real outage that matched the test we ran as recently as the weekend before. I was helping a bank switch over to the DR site(s)…
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