Free Postgres databases for small projects

Post by sandGorgon » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #80

sandGorgon wrote: post #77

Other than Heroku, there is no app deployment platform with databases right ? Even vercel doesn't have a database layer. Fly.io again gives VM - not an managed app layer.

> Other than Heroku, there is no app deployment platform with databases right ? Are we not counting the major public clouds as “app deployment platforms” now?

Post by gfd » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 4:17 PM UTC

mrkurt wrote: post #191

ignoramous wrote: post #145

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> 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..…

We don't bill for internal Postgres bandwidth anymore. Bandwidth in general is a good point though. No one _actually_ offers unlimited bandwidth. We haven't figured out how to be transparent about bandwidth costs AND check that box for people yet, though.

Post by piaste » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 4:33 PM UTC

mrkurt wrote: post #54

mooreds wrote: post #51

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For a company that says it makes it super easy to deploy a container image and mentions that all you need to do "Write your code, package it into a Docker image, deploy it to Fly's platform"[0], they sure have a dearth of documentation on how to deploy an existing docker container. I am not sure if I'm missing something or what, but here's where I looked: * googled 'docker fly' and a blog post that references docker…

You know, you're not really missing anything, we just don't connect the dots very well. Install CLI, run `fly launch` in a directory with a Dockerfile, and it should just work. Most of our users don't start with a Docker image though, they start with Phoenix. What you're seeing is a little bit of indecisiveness in how we target the docs.

Post by danvillalon » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 4:47 PM UTC

hungryforcodes wrote: post #193

Though as part of the signup I'm asked for a credit card. So it's not really "free". It's for credit card users only that need to trust they won't charge you.

Post by mrkurt » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 4:55 PM UTC

piaste wrote: post #196

mrkurt wrote: post #54

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You know, you're not really missing anything, we just don't connect the dots very well. Install CLI, run `fly launch` in a directory with a Dockerfile, and it should just work. Most of our users don't start with a Docker image though, they start with Phoenix. What you're seeing is a little bit of indecisiveness in how we target the docs.

> Install CLI, run `fly launch` in a directory with a Dockerfile, and it should just work. Does this build the Docker image locally and send it to Fly.io, or does it send the whole build context to Fly.io and build the image remotely?