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Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

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528 points sealeck | 4 comments | 15 May 22 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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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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brundolf ◴[15 May 22 21:13 UTC] No.31391191[source]▶
I've got a small amount of dynamic content
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1. 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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3. Mo3 ◴[15 May 22 23:22 UTC] No.31392143[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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4. xena ◴[16 May 22 00:32 UTC] No.31392591[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.