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Does anyone know if they have any plans to make an EU isolated fly.io ran by an European company?
Is it because you need to be able to defer responsibility to a legal entity of the EU?
Where do you store user uploaded content?
requires a credit card but costs nothing, their reasoning sounds alright to me
https://fly.io/blog/free-postgres/#a-note-about-credit-cards
I agree I'm thinking also making people pay for stuff is important. It's hardly like fly.io don't have a good reputation, I trust them and it does seem reasonable requirement to help them stop people destroying their platform with crypto mining!
Fly is great. They’ve got Chris McCord there, who has already improved their Elixir deployment story. I tweeted a few weeks ago about improving the default Rails deployment experience to not require DB provisioning and configuration of env vars like SECRET_BASE_KEY and they said it would likely ship within the next 3 months. My hot take is they’re setting themselves up to ride the server-side rendered HTML renaissanc…
Is some shady ISP colocation as safe as highly secured AWS and Azure data centers?
How to get free postgres for small projects: sudo apt-get install postgres AND you actually get sole control of all the data, all without the need for a credit card! Seriously though, who is this for? Any backend hosting platform offers a database. It's just a standard at this point. For people hosting static gihub pages (and storing all the database connection credentials in frontend js?!), don't make me laugh. Or y…
It brings them, more or less, to feature-parity with Heroku. If you cared about the differentiators for Fly (which, at a glance, seem to be better support for global reach and Docker, and less fiddling with Postgres) but were kept away by their lack of database on the free tier, now you probably want to give it a spin.
If you don't care for Heroku-style deployments, because you're happy managing your own infra, then this is not for you.
>We've had a free tier since we launched ten years ago (in 2020) Hmmm
> A note about credit cards > Even for our free services, we require a credit card number. We know that's the worst and it gives you heartburn. It's not because we plan to charge you. > But here's what happens if you give people freemium full access to a hosting platform: lots and lots of free VMs mining for cryptocurrencies. > We could tell you we want to prevent crypto mining because we care about the planet, and t…
Wouldn't they be able to detect mining? And shut down that VM? I think many hosters would like to have that...
> A note about credit cards > Even for our free services, we require a credit card number. We know that's the worst and it gives you heartburn. It's not because we plan to charge you. > But here's what happens if you give people freemium full access to a hosting platform: lots and lots of free VMs mining for cryptocurrencies. > We could tell you we want to prevent crypto mining because we care about the planet, and t…
Wouldn't they be able to detect mining? And shut down that VM? I think many hosters would like to have that...
Even if you catch all just having them try will be a huge waste of resources.
Does anyone know if they have any plans to make an EU isolated fly.io ran by an European company?
It seems that they allow you to pick which region(s) to deploy to. What are you missing at that point? Is it because you need to be able to defer responsibility to a legal entity of the EU?
Fly is great. They’ve got Chris McCord there, who has already improved their Elixir deployment story. I tweeted a few weeks ago about improving the default Rails deployment experience to not require DB provisioning and configuration of env vars like SECRET_BASE_KEY and they said it would likely ship within the next 3 months. My hot take is they’re setting themselves up to ride the server-side rendered HTML renaissanc…
What are the physical security implications of using Fly.io and other edge computing services? Is some shady ISP colocation as safe as highly secured AWS and Azure data centers?
Fly is edge in the sense they have hosts in N regions and manage the anycast for you so traffic seamlessly routes to those regions. They don’t publish which data centers they operate in only the regions (https://fly.io/docs/reference/regions/) but most of those regions line up with equinix data centers which are all physically secured professional facilities.
It’s a great question though and one they should have a document about.