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    Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

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    528 points sealeck | 11 comments | 15 May 22 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.642s | source | bottom
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    brundolf ◴[15 May 22 21:03 UTC] No.31391105[source]▶
    The only thing I don't like is their usage-based pricing. On Heroku I could pay $7 a month and know I'd never be charged more than that. I'm sure when you're scaling a service it's fine - maybe even better - to do it on a sliding scale. But for a fire-and-forget blog site, I don't want to have to worry about stuff like that.
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    1. natly ◴[15 May 22 21:10 UTC] No.31391168[source]▶
    Just use a static hoster for a blog site (like netlify or even github pages).
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    2. ushakov ◴[15 May 22 21:13 UTC] No.31391188[source]▶
    what if they want to use a CMS?
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    3. brundolf ◴[15 May 22 21:13 UTC] No.31391191[source]▶
    I've got a small amount of dynamic content
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    4. skrtskrt ◴[15 May 22 21:20 UTC] No.31391257[source]▶
    DigitalOcean App Platform has a $5/month flat rate for dynamic stuff on top of two static sites hosted for free...

    if something goes crazy and you end up using a wild amount of outbound data, it looks like the next jump up is only to $12

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    5. pkalinowski ◴[15 May 22 21:22 UTC] No.31391280[source]▶
    https://forestry.io could help
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    8. Mo3 ◴[15 May 22 23:22 UTC] No.31392143{3}[source]▶
    Depends on what you would consider a "wild amount".

    Their app platforms' bandwidth pricing is pretty painful at 0.10$/GB. With these prices and considering the app platform lacks functionality like multi-regional droplets or VPC integration, they are a subpar choice even compared to Firebase or Amplify.

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    9. xena ◴[16 May 22 00:32 UTC] No.31392591{4}[source]▶
    Author of the post here. Fun fact: if I paid that for how much traffic I'm getting, this post would cost me $5 for being on the front page of hacker news for a few hours.
    10. tnzk ◴[16 May 22 00:52 UTC] No.31392707[source]▶
    Most of static site hosts nowadays provide (serverless) functions for you to do something on server side.
    11. andrethegiant ◴[16 May 22 04:44 UTC] No.31393740[source]▶
    https://www.netlifycms.org