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Can't wait: https://blog.cloudflare.com/container-platform-preview/
wow, this will be huge
Only if they can sort out their atrocity of a documentation website.
Fly.io outage – resolved
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Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#162Fly.io seems to be a bit of a mixed bag:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41917436
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044516
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34742946
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34229751
If a cloud platform doesn't really provide reliability, I'd say it's probably not worth it. You could better just rent a (virtual) server and save the cloud tax.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#163I 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?)
OMG, that's hilarious. I use them, and I know what my prices are, but I'd never noticed that the page called pricing doesn't actually have any.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
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They actually hired some serious people. If they keep failing, it's not due to lack of total experience. That experience may not be well utilised, but the potential exists and they're far from kids.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#166Fly.io seems to be a bit of a mixed bag: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41917436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34742946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34229751 If a cloud platform doesn't really provide reliability, I'd say it's probably not worth it. You could better just rent a (virtual) server and save the cloud tax.
I don't really understand the value prop of fly.io. They seem to have an impressive engineering team despite the outages, but is edge compute really something that 99.9% of devs need? There are tons of large companies that operate out of a single AWS region and those services are used by millions around the globe. It just strikes me as something that enables premature optimization right out of the box.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#167I'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?
You say that like it's their only issue.
Earlier in the year they had a catastrophic outage in LHR, we lost all our data. Yes this is also on me, I'm aware. Still, that's a hard nope from me, we migrated.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#168Fly.io seems to be a bit of a mixed bag: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41917436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34742946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34229751 If a cloud platform doesn't really provide reliability, I'd say it's probably not worth it. You could better just rent a (virtual) server and save the cloud tax.
I don't really understand the value prop of fly.io. They seem to have an impressive engineering team despite the outages, but is edge compute really something that 99.9% of devs need? There are tons of large companies that operate out of a single AWS region and those services are used by millions around the globe. It just strikes me as something that enables premature optimization right out of the box.
It's basically the new Heroku with less lock-in, because it works with Docker.
You get edge computing, autoscaling, and load balancing without additional configuration.
Not as flexible as AWS, but also much easier to setup and maintain.
But the reliability issues suck now and then.
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#169My 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!
Same for us, down for ~5 mins, back up and fine, error was 501
Re: Fly.io outage – resolved
#170Fly.io seems to be a bit of a mixed bag: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41917436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34742946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34229751 If a cloud platform doesn't really provide reliability, I'd say it's probably not worth it. You could better just rent a (virtual) server and save the cloud tax.
For experiments and hobby projects the value proposition is amazing. Where else can you spin up an independent instance for $1.94 per month?*
*Note this is for an instance with only 256MB RAM (https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/), but it's definitely possible to run non-trivial projects on that. Rust-based web servers like Rocket require only about 10MB RAM. Basic PHP servers should also fit from what I can find.