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Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by gingerlime »

bradgessler wrote: post #8

Fly is great. They’ve got Chris McCord there, who has already improved their Elixir deployment story. I tweeted a few weeks ago about improving the default Rails deployment experience to not require DB provisioning and configuration of env vars like SECRET_BASE_KEY and they said it would likely ship within the next 3 months. My hot take is they’re setting themselves up to ride the server-side rendered HTML renaissanc…

What kind of Rails apps run without a DB? or how can you scale your app with a DB across 10+ regions?

Would love to understand better how to deploy Rails with fly and still benefit from multi-region/failover/scaling

p.s. horrible nitpick, but I think it’s SECRET_KEY_BASE :)

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by HellsMaddy »

mrkurt wrote: post #54
mooreds wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I just did this with an application I haven't touch in years. The deployment worked on the first try. A few clicks and I had TLS certificates. I'm sold!

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by mrkurt »

gingerlime wrote: post #71
bradgessler wrote: post #8

Fly is great. They’ve got Chris McCord there, who has already improved their Elixir deployment story. I tweeted a few weeks ago about improving the default Rails deployment experience to not require DB provisioning and configuration of env vars like SECRET_BASE_KEY and they said it would likely ship within the next 3 months. My hot take is they’re setting themselves up to ride the server-side rendered HTML renaissanc…

What kind of Rails apps run without a DB? or how can you scale your app with a DB across 10+ regions? Would love to understand better how to deploy Rails with fly and still benefit from multi-region/failover/scaling p.s. horrible nitpick, but I think it’s SECRET_KEY_BASE :)

Read heavy Rails apps work great multi region: https://fly.io/blog/run-ordinary-rails-apps-globally/

We have a Gem to make it almost transparent: https://github.com/superfly/fly-ruby

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by indigodaddy »

mrkurt wrote: post #44
indigodaddy wrote: post #34

Is 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

Oh that’s right, I misremembered from when I was researching you guys last year. It’s persistent volumes that aren’t in the free tier.

In any case, an extremely generous free tier.

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by mickael-kerjean »

mrkurt wrote: post #47
bachmeier wrote: post #41

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?

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…

> If we can sift through 1,000 free users and find one who converts to $25k per month, we're delighted.

Does this ever happen? I was contacted by a F500 who needed some custom version of my open source project (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash). 25k sounds unreal but hey I have no experience in purchasing enterprise grade software and it's not simple to find actual figures so I was aiming at making an offer at 2.4k/month. Is it a rock bottom figure in enterprise grade software?

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by dragonwriter »

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?

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