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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 anurag »

shroompasta wrote: post #70

I'm having trouble understanding the purpose of these edge services. Granted, I've only handled small - medium sized infrastructures, and never really experienced the issues at scale, but if I were to get to that point, wouldn't it be easier to just hire a Infrastructure Engineer who could deal with the replication / sharding, not to mention having that engineer also deal with site reliability and dev ops? If a user…

Hiring a (good) DevOps or infrastructure engineer is harder and more expensive than you might think.

That said, you can go very far with stateless apps at the edge with regional read replicas and a single write instance that's half way across the globe.

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by mike_d »

mrkurt wrote: post #40
leerob wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like Fly is moving to usage-based pricing: https://twitter.com/mrkurt/status/1475310487864848391

This is true, but we aren't going to bill per request. We really can't, since we support arbitrary UDP and TCP services. I don't really want to promise anything we haven't shipped yet. But my perfect cloud service (a) charges me when VMs are alive and (b) gives me the tools I need to create/remove/stop/start/suspend/resume VMs based on either network activity or metrics. One flaw of Fly.io right now is that it's rela…

Is arbitrary UDP working now?

I don't fault you guys for being a growing startup (we have all been there), but it would be awesome to have a way to flag an issue as "email me when this is fixed so I can come back."

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by xpressvideoz »

This is huge! Kudos to the team for their commitment.

But, is there a reason why the minimum size of a storage that can be provisioned is 1GB? Last I checked, a provisioned storage cannot be shared by multiple apps, so I had to always create an overprovisioned storage when creating a small app, leading to a waste of money. Is it possible to share a PostgreSQL instance instead?

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by tptacek »

mike_d wrote: post #94
mrkurt wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is true, but we aren't going to bill per request. We really can't, since we support arbitrary UDP and TCP services. I don't really want to promise anything we haven't shipped yet. But my perfect cloud service (a) charges me when VMs are alive and (b) gives me the tools I need to create/remove/stop/start/suspend/resume VMs based on either network activity or metrics. One flaw of Fly.io right now is that it's rela…

Is arbitrary UDP working now? I don't fault you guys for being a growing startup (we have all been there), but it would be awesome to have a way to flag an issue as "email me when this is fixed so I can come back."

Arbitrary UDP has worked since we launched UDP; it's never had a port filter or anything.

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by password4321 »

Ostrogodsky wrote: post #88
robjan wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 influenc…

Was it PamFax? I used them for my one-time personal use over 10 years ago...

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by aceelric »

I’ve been using Fly for my new startup that offers notifications as a service [1], and the whole setup is super easy and efficient.

Since fly deploys at the edge closer to the users, our response times for notifications are 20ms on average which is mind blowing since I haven’t spent more than 1 hour on infrastructure setup.

1: https://usenative.com

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by afandian »

aceelric wrote: post #98

I’ve been using Fly for my new startup that offers notifications as a service [1], and the whole setup is super easy and efficient. Since fly deploys at the edge closer to the users, our response times for notifications are 20ms on average which is mind blowing since I haven’t spent more than 1 hour on infrastructure setup. 1: https://usenative.com

What about databases? Is there a postgres-type-thing 'closer to users'?

Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects

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Post by hdjrudni »

rmbyrro wrote: post #39
lewisl9029 wrote: post #28

I'm so glad Fly exists. Every other edge focused thing out there I'm aware of are "serverless" which these days basically means they charge per request. That's fine for a lot of use cases, but the unit economics of the per request pricing model means it's really hard to operate a predictably sustainable (i.e. profitable) business without also charging our customers on a usage basis, or enforcing limits on usage, neit…

Serverless pricing model doesn't have to be transferred to your customers. If you know them well and their usage patterns, you can predict with confidence how much each customer will cost you. With granularity to the level of a feature or even a particular action. This allows for extremely precise and safe unit economics planning. I couldn't be happier with this benefit from serverless. In a server-based infra you ha…

Kubernetes on DigitalOcean scales pretty well.. fixed monthly cost. If I run out of capacity I just add an extra node or switch to more powerful nodes. Kubernetes takes care of provisioning the nodes.

Google APIs OTOH... I went from $0/month to $450 the next because of their stupid per-unit pricing and hidden API calls.

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