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Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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Post by buro9 »

teraflop wrote: post #74
gowthamgts12 wrote: post #17

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> While we check the forum regularly, sometimes topics get missed. Unfortunately this thread one slipped by us until today, when someone saw it and flagged it internally. If it really got missed, then I don't understand how the thread was made private to only logged-in users?

It looks like all 166 threads with the "App not working" tag are invisible when not logged in. So I'm guessing somebody applied that tag retroactively. https://community.fly.io/c/questions-and-help/app-not-workin... EDIT: it now appears that the "app-not-working" tag itself has been deleted, and no longer shows up even when logged in.

This is why companies should not run their own forums. It's cheap support and marketing, it's not really community.

Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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Post by masklinn »

justsid wrote: post #116
danielvaughn wrote: post #56

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I adore DO. They’re seriously underrated. I love how they’ll just give you a server and say here, have at it. No abstractions, no fancy crap, just get out of my way and let me do my thing.

I wish I could say the same. My ISP and DO have absolutely terrible peering, unfortunately a lot of our internal stuff is hosted there. It’s always fun to git push/pull with 40kb/s on a gigabit connection.

Maybe you could VPN to or proxy through a box with good peering to you and DO?

Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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Post by kipple »

teraflop wrote: post #74
gowthamgts12 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> While we check the forum regularly, sometimes topics get missed. Unfortunately this thread one slipped by us until today, when someone saw it and flagged it internally. If it really got missed, then I don't understand how the thread was made private to only logged-in users?

It looks like all 166 threads with the "App not working" tag are invisible when not logged in. So I'm guessing somebody applied that tag retroactively. https://community.fly.io/c/questions-and-help/app-not-workin... EDIT: it now appears that the "app-not-working" tag itself has been deleted, and no longer shows up even when logged in.

In another comment here, they're saying they just deleted that tag to avoid this access issue — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36810393

Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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Post by JanSt »

danielvaughn wrote: post #56
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #31

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I left digitalocean for fly because some of their tooling was excellent. I was pretty excited. I’m back on digitalocean now. I’m not unhappy about it, they’re very solid. I don’t love some things about their services, but overall I’d highly recommend them to other developers. I gave up on fly because I’d spontaneously be unable to automate deployments due to limited resources. Or I’d have previously happy deployments…

I adore DO. They’re seriously underrated. I love how they’ll just give you a server and say here, have at it. No abstractions, no fancy crap, just get out of my way and let me do my thing.

I'm using Digital Ocean App platform, which does pretty much everything for me. It's very simple to use. I can run my app as a single developer without caring about infrastructure for 99% of the time.

Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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Post by vasco »

danielvaughn wrote: post #56
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I left digitalocean for fly because some of their tooling was excellent. I was pretty excited. I’m back on digitalocean now. I’m not unhappy about it, they’re very solid. I don’t love some things about their services, but overall I’d highly recommend them to other developers. I gave up on fly because I’d spontaneously be unable to automate deployments due to limited resources. Or I’d have previously happy deployments…

I adore DO. They’re seriously underrated. I love how they’ll just give you a server and say here, have at it. No abstractions, no fancy crap, just get out of my way and let me do my thing.

Same! I've had my first server there for 10 years now. They added a lot of stuff in the meantime, they have AWS-like things you can do. But in terms of launching a VM that just works, they are a great choice.

Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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Post by skullone »

timc3 wrote: post #85
skullone wrote: post #77

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Not that nothing will fail - but some manufacturers have just really good fault management, monitoring, alerting, etc. And even the simplest shit like SNMP with a few custom MIBs from the vendor (which theres some that do it better). Facilities and vendors that lend a good hand with remote hands is also nice, if you remote management infrastructure should fail. But out of band, full featured management cards with all…

Could you expand your answer to list vendors which you would recommend?

"it depends". Dell is fairly good overall, on-site techs are outsourced subcontractors a lot so that can be a mixed bag, pushy sales. Supermicro is good on a budget, not quite mature full fault management or complete SNMP or redfish, they can EOL a new line of gear suddenly.

Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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Post by vasco »

buro9 wrote: post #121
teraflop wrote: post #74

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It looks like all 166 threads with the "App not working" tag are invisible when not logged in. So I'm guessing somebody applied that tag retroactively. https://community.fly.io/c/questions-and-help/app-not-workin... EDIT: it now appears that the "app-not-working" tag itself has been deleted, and no longer shows up even when logged in.

This is why companies should not run their own forums. It's cheap support and marketing, it's not really community.

I never thought to make friends with people who's only common thing with me is that they shop at the same place. Companies creating a "community" is exactly as you described.
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