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Fly.io outage – resolved

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Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by tptacek »

pajeetz wrote: post #280
tptacek wrote: post #272

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Nobody has called anybody a liar. I'm very comfortable with what i've said thus far on this thread, so maybe we're fine leaving it here.

is that why you are going through all my comments and flagging and downvoting? you know this just makes you look even worse right?

That's not how flags work on HN: I can't flag your responses to me. For a variety of reasons, and for better or worse, I'm very comfortable with how I come across on HN.

To twist the knife just a little bit, I'll refer you though to the guidelines:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by subarctic »

adityapatadia wrote: post #147
subarctic wrote: post #143

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You mean their App Platform right? How does the pricing compare to fly?

Yes, App Platform. Pricing is a little higher but way lower than AWS but it is fully justified. Zero downtime in the last 1 year. With Fly, we had 3-4 downtimes in 2023 in a span of 4 months.

Ok so for hobby projects it wouldn't make sense to switch then, but glad to hear it works for you. I haven't been in a position where it would make sense - I have hobby projects where I don't care much about reliability, and then there's the infrastructure the company I work for uses and that's all on AWS

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by fulafel »

fulafel wrote: post #72
runako wrote: post #66

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No dog in this fight, all props to the Fly.io team for having the gumption to do what they are doing, I genuinely hope they are successful... > It's still 99.99+% SLA But this is simply not accurate. 99.99% uptime is annually of downtime. They apparently blew well through that today. Looks like they essentially had the equivalent of 4 years of 99.99% uptime equivalent this evening. Four nines is so unforgiving that i…

99.99+% SLA typically means you get some billing credits for the downtime exceeding 99.99+ availability. So technically do get a "99.99+% SLA", but you don't get 99.99+% availability. Other circles use "SLO" (where the O stands for objective). (Anyone know what the details in fly.io SLA are?)

Answering myself, https://fly.io/legal/sla-uptime/ says you get some credits for under 99.9% uptime "provided that Customer reports to Fly.io such failure to meet the Uptime Commitment". So at least currently there's no talk of 99.99%.

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by veggieWHITES »

tptacek wrote: post #279
veggieWHITES wrote: post #278

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LOL. If you're not charging us for it, is there any other psychoanalysis you might be willing to provide? Alternatively: sometimes, a weirdly-positioned pricing page is just a weirdly-positioned pricing page.

Psychoanalysis?

This is a technology review and discussion website. It's poor design to put a link to a pricing page and not list any prices.

You're literally the only GPU provider that does that.

I was trying to give you my perspective as a consumer since I know you frequent these forums but I apologize if I have offended you in some way.

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by akerl_ »

veggieWHITES wrote: post #284
tptacek wrote: post #279

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LOL. If you're not charging us for it, is there any other psychoanalysis you might be willing to provide? Alternatively: sometimes, a weirdly-positioned pricing page is just a weirdly-positioned pricing page.

Psychoanalysis? This is a technology review and discussion website. It's poor design to put a link to a pricing page and not list any prices. You're literally the only GPU provider that does that. I was trying to give you my perspective as a consumer since I know you frequent these forums but I apologize if I have offended you in some way.

You didn’t present a consumer perspective, you offered your hot take on why the company has set up the site in the way they did.

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by huijzer »

throwaway63467 wrote: post #195
huijzer wrote: post #170

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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.

Best business model in the world, buy stuff in big bags, put it in smaller ones, sell at a multiple of the original price. Fly is mostly (to my knowledge) reselling Netactuate and OVH servers, their main innovation is the developer experience on top, using Docker on a MicroVM based approach. Of course not only that, but I think it’s their main differentiator. Haven’t used that in a while but Scaleway offered ridiculo…

Isn't that most business models? Make it easier to do something. A car is easier than a bike. A grocery store is easier than talking to a farmer. Ordering a cab is easier than walking. A VPS is easier than managing your own hardware.

Re: Fly.io outage – resolved

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Post by indigodaddy »

tptacek wrote: post #270
pajeetz wrote: post #269

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I'm puzzled with your statement here. Frankly, offended by your sarcasm and unprofessional behavior here.

What puzzles you about it? I feel like I'm speaking straightforwardly.

He doesn't really get it obviously. Also thinks he can just go "do what fly does on my own server because I can type out 'firecracker'"
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