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No email sent out and charged on first of January for a mere 2$. If there's a way to upset your customer base, that's one. I had already switched off them my paid apps because of poor reliability and just had one internal app. Shame because I love the workflow and the fact it's using firecracker. This is the last fly.io sees of me.
No email sent out and charged on first of January for a mere 2$. If there's a way to upset your customer base, that's one. I had already switched off them my paid apps because of poor reliability and just had one internal app. Shame because I love the workflow and the fact it's using firecracker. This is the last fly.io sees of me.
What are you switching to?
No email sent out and charged on first of January for a mere 2$. If there's a way to upset your customer base, that's one. I had already switched off them my paid apps because of poor reliability and just had one internal app. Shame because I love the workflow and the fact it's using firecracker. This is the last fly.io sees of me.
What are you switching to?
I get some downtime from digital ocean too but I like to have a backup plan in case hetzner has issues (which didn't happen yet)
flyctl ips list
flyctl ips release 168.220.XXX.XXX
flyctl ips allocate-v4 --shared
Ok, so now they got my credit card info, because I had to pay 2$.
flyctl ips allocate-v4 --shared
flyctl certs list
flyctl certs remove *.XXX
flyctl ips allocate-v4 --shared
I don't like fly too much, because this is the first free hoster, which I have to constantly check for downtimes and restart the app then. Need a 10m cronjob now.
cd ~/MyAppPath
if timeout 5 flyctl logs -a myapp | grep -e "Health check on port 8080 has failed|connection error:"
then
flyctl apps restart myapp
fiI just came to HN to see if there was something about this here. I just got my first charge out of nowhere. I’ve had an account there for a couple years and tried it out a long time back but wasn’t actively using it. I like fly as a service, and I have no problem with them charging, but coming out of nowhere with no prior notice is definitely frustrating and unexpected.
* The advance notice of the billing change (we announced in October, but only on our community site) slipped, but the billing change didn't. That's not OK! We agree: you get notified before we bill new things to you.
* Ordinarily, we waive invoices less than $5. Our billing code had a bug that let these charges slip through. D'oh.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The notice was posted by Fly on October 18th.
Posting a notice isn’t exactly the same as communicating with accounts that will be affected by the change. I hadn’t seen anything about it so it was a surprise to me. Would have appreciated a simple heads up - “hey, we’re going to start billing for this”
I just came to HN to see if there was something about this here. I just got my first charge out of nowhere. I’ve had an account there for a couple years and tried it out a long time back but wasn’t actively using it. I like fly as a service, and I have no problem with them charging, but coming out of nowhere with no prior notice is definitely frustrating and unexpected.
We agree. Presumably by now you got the email we sent out to everyone about reversing the charges. This was a bug.
I’ve also already unassigned my unneeded address and I’m still interested in using fly for some things in the future.