Fly's developer experience is really sweet.
Do you have plans to open up your API for provisioning on the fly?
We've use-cases which require dynamic provisioning of new deployments as well as mutating existing deployments based on APIs we offer to our customers.
Free Postgres databases for small projects
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Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#82I think your pricing page does not reflect this change yet?
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#83Tangentially related: I really dig this “soft” serif font that seems to be making the rounds (including on fly.io). I can't figure out if I like it because it is making the rounds, or if it's just easy on the eyes. Either way, I dig it.
You might find this overview of Windsor [1] interesting then. It was a classic typeface that many others (including Mackinac, used on Fly.io) were inspired by.
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#84I'm a newbie in deploying and would love to see a documentation on how to deploy a spring boot using flyctl. Most docs are about node and ruby.
Thanks for the free services.
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#85>1. Install Flyctl - you'll need it.
Hmm.. not sure if I want to install something to use this.
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#86Recently, I gave Fly an honest go for a new multi-container project that seemed like a good fit. After digging in, I found that the pg clusters had some sort of system wide bug and couldn’t be attached to any of my apps. It was a bummer. Everything seemed great, I just literally couldn’t use it. I’d love to hear others experiences with the PG features. I could see it replacing Digital ocean for my use cases (if it wo…
I'm sad this bug burned you. We had some brittle infrastructure for talking into a Postgres cluster, and it was a bit of a fire drill to rip it out and simplify. You would have a better experience if you tried today! We know this because we have metrics on how many people created and then destroyed Postgres DBs without successfully connecting an app to them. When we show this to investors we'll explain that the impro…
> When we show this to investors we'll explain that the improvement was a big win for our "go to market efforts". But you should know it was really just a bug fix for something we disappointed you with.
That made me chuckle :)
I encountered some of those same postgres issues and so far have been only running a staging database on Fly. This comment is motivation for me to finish moving my real DB over from google.
P.S. I was running my own fork of your postgres container so I could include postgis, and this probably made management even more brittle -- I'm really happy to see https://github.com/fly-apps/postgres-ha/pull/44#issuecomment... landed!
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your suggestion would make you a target for folks trying to launder purloined cryptocurrency.
cryptocurrency and any free tier compute makes you are target for mslfeasance. cryptocurrencies are basically cancer to compute resources
If you price the bond correctly, it could even be profitable.
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#88requires a credit card but costs nothing, their reasoning sounds alright to me
Better than other abuse prone services, such as Hetzner or OVH, which require you to take a selfie holding your national ID card.
I was blind-robbed by a German company because of that. I paid a full year, was never given access,I "opened" a ticket and they answered a full week later asking me to fill 2 forms with lots PIID+ national ID card + Credit card, I told them to get lost. For being a supposedly modern, democratic society Germany seems very backward regarding online things, it is not surprised that for a economy of its size and influence the number of truly innovative "modern" online companies is rather low.
BTW, if someone knows of an HONEST company that provides online fax US numbers (Damn you IRS) I am all ears.
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#89>1. Install Flyctl - you'll need it. Hmm.. not sure if I want to install something to use this.
If you prefer, you can build it from source.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://supabase.com/pricing - 500MB, 2GB download/month (can be used as plain PostgreSQL) https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing - 5GB, 250M "request units"/month (distributed, PostgreSQL-ish https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/postgresql-compati... ) I was not aware of the other portions of the free compute tier from Fly.io, was looking into Oracle Cloud. ( Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier? Sep 202…
It's worth noting that our 3GB free is a quirk of our infrastructure. We want people to try a read replica. We only provision volumes down to 1GB. 3GB sounds better than 2GB. Sometime soon we'll cross the threshold of relevance and you'll just use Supabase or Cockroach on Fly. They're great f'n products.
kind of giddy thinking about multi-region supabase handled by fly, sky is the limit