Frankly, the only solution to reducing dependence on these type of things is self-hosting. At least then you will be able to be 100% sure of causes and resolutions
Companies moving to the cloud are only increasing their operating costs
Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
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Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
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Render has been my drop-in successor to Heroku. No complaints except their weird team pricing, which doesn't matter for solo projects
Render didn't support Docker images last I checked, and the worst part of Heroku and cloning it was not actually having a locally reproducible build image. I want to deploy what I've built locally, not hand my source over to some magical pipeline.
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Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
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#275It's really disappointing that they made this forum thread private, apparently in response to this HN thread blowing up. This is the first negative HN thread I've seen about them, it's not even really that bad because this kind of downtime is expected, and they can't get to every forum post, and their response that someone posted here is totally reasonable in my opinion. So why is the link to the thread 404ing and wh…
(a) Not even close to the first negative HN thread about us. (b) We definitely didn't make the thread private in response to HN. (c) It should be public again.
Refuting the points in (a) and (b) still concedes that it was made private. Care to actually mention _why_ it was made private?
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I left digitalocean for fly because some of their tooling was excellent. I was pretty excited. I’m back on digitalocean now. I’m not unhappy about it, they’re very solid. I don’t love some things about their services, but overall I’d highly recommend them to other developers. I gave up on fly because I’d spontaneously be unable to automate deployments due to limited resources. Or I’d have previously happy deployments…
I adore DO. They’re seriously underrated. I love how they’ll just give you a server and say here, have at it. No abstractions, no fancy crap, just get out of my way and let me do my thing.
I love their high value content about dev ops, I have learned most of what I know in this field tinkering with a VPS with their great tutorials on how to set up stuff.
Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
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Do they have Terraform providers? And managed Postgres? Besides from the ability to just host a Docker container, that is all I need.
Yes and (unfortunately) no. Terraform providers are here [1] with the official documentation at [2]. Managed databases are not available, though. I think they have some sort of database offering if you select their web hosting options, but you can't just get a managed Postgres instance yourself. [1] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hetznercloud/hcloud/... [2] https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/howto-hclou…
Got it, thanks. I've used ElephantSQL as well and I've been happy with them.
Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
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There's a sweet spot of early startup or side project where you don't have the time, budget or people to manually set up and maintain servers on your own or deal with the complexity and cost of Kubernetes or AWS, especially when your focus is on building the product and acquiring customers. Heroku (before its inevitable enshittification under Salesforce) was great for this use case. Sure you will outgrow it at some p…
What exactly does Fly.io give you? You already know how to set up your project locally. Why not just do the same setup on any cloud VM and boom it is online?
Yes, that's a viable option in many cases.
But if your users are distributed around the world and most requests are read requests then it can make sense to shave 100 or 200 ms off your response times.
You can always squander those gains later by running JavaScript for 5000 ms before showing anything :)
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Couldn't agree more, I think Hetzner is probably Europe's best bet on a hyperscaler. One of the more telling indicators IMO is their growing market share outside of the EU/DACH. To add on to the comments about Hetzner building their own custom hardware, they also custom built their own software stack. They rejected the hype that was OpenStack and worked diligently on their own hypervisor platform (that they are incre…
Could you please elaborate how and what you know about managed Kubernetes on Hetzner? I am asking for this since a while and was told there is no way Hetzner would offer such a service. Certain Posts on Social Media have also never been answered with any kind of indication that they are actually working on it. Please provide some Details on this.
They were in person recruiting at KubeCon EU this year and were advertising a good number of Kubernetes engineering roles. Definitely gave me the impression they were taking Kubernetes seriously but looking back a managed offering was just speculation on my part.
So huge grain of salt, you are totally right. It could be internal platform work only.
Re: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it
#280Y'all, this is going to be deeply unsatisfying, but it's what I can report personally: I have no earthly clue why this thread on our community site is unlisted. We're looking at the admin UI for it right now, and there's like, a little lock next to do the story, but the "unlist story" option is still there for us to click. The best I can say is: I'm reasonably sure there wasn't some top-down edict to hide this thread…
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