Curious as to the motivation for this. I've never heard of this company, but the pricing page says the cheapest PG cluster is $6.88 per month. Is that enough to keep their target customers from using their service?
Free Postgres databases for small projects
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#42As a founder, there is no company the same age as mine I am more jealous of than fly.io. Looking forward to moving one of our products over to fly as soon as time allows :)
Oh goodness I love KubeSail. Before Fly.io, I really wanted to build a self hosted alternative to Google Photos. I think what you're doing is incredibly valuable.
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#43> We could tell you we want to prevent crypto mining because we care about the planet, and that would be true. We also have a capitalism nerve that hurts when people spend our money gambling. Your credit card number is the thin plastic line between us and chaos. Could a payments platform like Stripe build a one-click "Freemium powered by Stripe" button ala OpenID, so that these services may free-tier in a friction-fr…
> We also have a capitalism nerve This article is about providing IaaS for free, and isn't that anti-competitive? The big cloud providers and Heroku do it, and I think it makes it a bit harder for OVH, vultr, hetzner and others who don't provide freebies like this.
I don't think we lose much sleep thinking about how hard we're making things for OVH, which booked over 600MM $EU last year. But we're flattered that you'd think that. :)
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#44Is there any free tier that includes a certain amount of free transfer?
We include 160GB of outbound bandwidth per month: https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/#free-allowances
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#45The jumps in prices for Postgres seem pretty high. The next step up from $7 is $28(4x). After that it’s $154(5.5x), and the next step up from that is $1266(8x).
If I outgrow the $154 plan I have to jump to a ~$1300 plan.
Is this right?
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#46I already get postgres for free: apt-get install postgresql
Sure, if you want to install it on a machine that you are already paying for and managing, and then operate the thing yourself. That's obviously a very different product than any [IPS]aaS.
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#47Curious as to the motivation for this. I've never heard of this company, but the pricing page says the cheapest PG cluster is $6.88 per month. Is that enough to keep their target customers from using their service?
It's an attempt to reduce friction. Developers try services like ours out for fun before they use them in anger. Putting a price on the fun stuff keeps people from trying it. It's not that $6.88/mo is too much, it's that >$0/mo is too much for developers who are used to their side projects being subsidized by monopolies or VCs.
People spend a lot of money on infrastructure when they use it in anger. Free apps cost us ~$0.50/mo. If we can sift through 1,000 free users and find one who converts to $25k per month, we're delighted.
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#48> 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.
I also like the frankness and simplicity of their communication style. No fancy buzzwords, to the point and speaks to things we all know are true but are typically not addressed or are wrapped up in spin. The first and last paragraphs are great examples. The authenticity of it leaves me with a strong sense of trust and respect.
They know their audience and write to them.
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#49> 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.
> since we launched ten years ago (in 2020).
2010?
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#50It would be nice if there was some kind of "snowflake" alternative to credit card. I'm not sure what it would be, but not everyone has one.
We're working on this. I don't like the credit card barrier. It adds friction to a thing we want a lot of people to try out.
Thanks! Glad to hear it.