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Free Postgres databases for small projects
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Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#142This is huge! Kudos to the team for their commitment. But, is there a reason why the minimum size of a storage that can be provisioned is 1GB? Last I checked, a provisioned storage cannot be shared by multiple apps, so I had to always create an overprovisioned storage when creating a small app, leading to a waste of money. Is it possible to share a PostgreSQL instance instead?
This reminds me of the days where every popular PHP+MySQL application had an option for a table prefix, so multiple applications could live in the one databse provided by your classic hosting provider.
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#143Now that’s a well crafted feature announcement that speaks directly to their demographic without a bunch of marketing bs involved.
Was thinking the very same thing.
Very earnest.
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#144> We've had a free tier since we launched ten years ago (in 2020). I’m not a Fly.io customer (although more and more I am thinking I should be), but I eagerly read every new blog post because I’m so entertained by their tone. These people are clearly having fun at work.
This is a sort of content-free comment, but I'll say it anyways because it's been gnawing at me for months --- there is a lot of content queued up for us to write about; just a freaking avalanche of stuff we've been working on. I keep looking for places to break it off and start writing about it, and the work keeps growing and foiling our attempts.
This isn't really a content-free comment -- you've let us know that you all are not sitting on your hands.
Have you thought of hiring a technical writer? Think of it as a work-stealing algorithm if that helps :-)
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#145I'm so glad Fly exists. Every other edge focused thing out there I'm aware of are "serverless" which these days basically means they charge per request. That's fine for a lot of use cases, but the unit economics of the per request pricing model means it's really hard to operate a predictably sustainable (i.e. profitable) business without also charging our customers on a usage basis, or enforcing limits on usage, neit…
> Every other edge focused thing out there I'm aware of are "serverless" which these days basically means they charge per request.
Workers Unbound is $1 for ~6.6M requests (+ runtime at $0.0000015 per sec / $12.5 for 1M GB-sec). That's super cheap considering free egress, which brings me to...
> Fly just gives us compute at the edge for a predictable price per unit of actual compute resources as opposed to requests...
Fly.io may not meter requests anymore, but they continue to meter egress, even between your VMs in the same region [0]. Usage-based price model is everywhere, like it or not.
[0] https://community.fly.io/t/do-traffic-over-6pn-within-the-sa...
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#146Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#147I'm so glad Fly exists. Every other edge focused thing out there I'm aware of are "serverless" which these days basically means they charge per request. That's fine for a lot of use cases, but the unit economics of the per request pricing model means it's really hard to operate a predictably sustainable (i.e. profitable) business without also charging our customers on a usage basis, or enforcing limits on usage, neit…
> it's really hard to operate a predictably sustainable (i.e. profitable) business [... with other providers]. Fly just gives us compute at the edge for a predictable price per unit of actual compute resources as opposed to requests, and gives us freedom to serve as much traffic as we can min-max onto those resources, like we could with traditional cloud compute
The praise on the subject of predictability is interesting, given perennial concerns about uncapped vs capped usage charges (with any cloud provider), but esp. in light of past Fly-specific comments that "putting work into features specifically to minimize how much people spend seems like a good way to fail a company".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24699221>
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#148Not sure if this is a dumb question but is this basically the same as Heroku? What’s the difference?
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#149This is huge! Kudos to the team for their commitment. But, is there a reason why the minimum size of a storage that can be provisioned is 1GB? Last I checked, a provisioned storage cannot be shared by multiple apps, so I had to always create an overprovisioned storage when creating a small app, leading to a waste of money. Is it possible to share a PostgreSQL instance instead?
You can run multiple DBs in a single postgres instance. "fly pg attach" creates a DB and user for each app you run.
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#150> 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...
That just turns into a cat and mouse game.