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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 :-)
If you click on the Twitter handle of one of the authors at the bottom of the article you’ll see they list their job as “technical writing at fly.io”.
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This is true, but we aren't going to bill per request. We really can't, since we support arbitrary UDP and TCP services. I don't really want to promise anything we haven't shipped yet. But my perfect cloud service (a) charges me when VMs are alive and (b) gives me the tools I need to create/remove/stop/start/suspend/resume VMs based on either network activity or metrics. One flaw of Fly.io right now is that it's rela…
Can you scale each region based on usage i.e. have a huge server in US or Europe and a tiny one in a market you don't have many users in? fly.io is really an incredible piece of work, I'll probably just default to it as I am a massive Elixir fanboy :-) As others have said $50 seems a very low starting point but if you can make it cheaper why not, just means you've helped more people onto your service and they will gr…
In most cases "the next nearest region" is less than 15ms away.
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This is true, but we aren't going to bill per request. We really can't, since we support arbitrary UDP and TCP services. I don't really want to promise anything we haven't shipped yet. But my perfect cloud service (a) charges me when VMs are alive and (b) gives me the tools I need to create/remove/stop/start/suspend/resume VMs based on either network activity or metrics. One flaw of Fly.io right now is that it's rela…
I actually worry you are undervaluing yourselves. $50 is fine for 10 regions as a data point from where I sit though I wouldn’t object to less
To the Fly.io team here, other than the "daily storage-based snapshots of each of your provisioned volumes"[0], is there a plan to offer something similar to Heroku WAL based restore system [1] where you can (from the control panel) restore a db to a moment in time? Also do you have any plans for a managed upgrading/patching of Postgres, again similar to Heroku? For me personally the fully managed nature of Postgress…
We will be able to do a WAL backup / point in time restore feature when we ship object storage.
Managed upgrades are almost in. If you run `fly image show` it'll tell you if you need one, then `fly image update` will upgrade your Postgres. We don't do this automatically yet. It won't be difficult though.
I had not heard of fly.io but i really appreciate free for side projects! I have a docker setup for .NET core psql app on digital ocean so will be fun to see if i can get a that working with you. Also pricing at a quick glance seems good. Are you running your own servers or using another cloud as the basis?
To the Fly.io team here, other than the "daily storage-based snapshots of each of your provisioned volumes"[0], is there a plan to offer something similar to Heroku WAL based restore system [1] where you can (from the control panel) restore a db to a moment in time? Also do you have any plans for a managed upgrading/patching of Postgres, again similar to Heroku? For me personally the fully managed nature of Postgress…
It's definitely more hands on. We will be able to do a WAL backup / point in time restore feature when we ship object storage. Managed upgrades are almost in. If you run `fly image show` it'll tell you if you need one, then `fly image update` will upgrade your Postgres. We don't do this automatically yet. It won't be difficult though.
Brilliant! I have only had to use it once on Heroku, but that one time has me convinced that I couldn't live without it.
This is awesome. One genuine question from someone with no context into their product: does Fly lock me in by barring access to WAL replication? This is something Heroku does that is extremely annoying as you'll grow and grow with them and one day you realize migrating the data will be a massive hassle.
RDS preventing external streaming replicas is the most annoying thing ever.
On thing I'm missing, is there an object store that works well with fly.io? Where do you store user uploaded content?
I'm a newbie in deploying and would love to see a documentation on how to deploy a spring boot using flyctl. Most docs are about node and ruby. Thanks for the free services.
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…
"fly launch" on a Phoenix app, for example, gets your entire app + DB deployed in about 60s for free.