Free Postgres databases for small projects
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#2Now that’s a well crafted feature announcement that speaks directly to their demographic without a bunch of marketing bs involved.
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#3Free tier of CloudFlare Pages/functions runs the app at the edge by default. For Fly.io, this scaling has to be manually configured for both the app and the DB. Are there any plans to offer it by default for the free tier? It is hard to evaluate the benefits of having the data center near the end user when it is not offered out of the box, especially since all the Fly.io blog posts talk about how great their service is for HTML-over-the-wire UIs like Phoenix live view and Rails Hotwire.
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#4requires a credit card but costs nothing, their reasoning sounds alright to me
Re: Free Postgres databases for small projects
#5requires a credit card but costs nothing, their reasoning sounds alright to me
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#6> 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.
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#7requires a credit card but costs nothing, their reasoning sounds alright to me
Abuse prevention has a cost, otherwise we can't have nice things.
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#8Fly 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 renaissance we are experiencing with LiveView and Hotwire. It will become much more important to deploy applications geographically closer to customers to lower latency, which Fly makes sane for the rest of us.
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#9Recently, 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 works reliably)
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#10Tangentially 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.