Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

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.

This is a problem. And a bit of an own goal on our part.

I hate services that don't put a price on things like bandwidth (because there's always a price!). So we priced bandwidth and made it transparent. You can put an app on Fly.io and server petabytes of data every month, if you want. We'll never complain that you're serving the wrong content type.

But the reality is – having an unlimited bandwidth promise is perfect for for a fire and forget blog site. We're not doing ourselves any favors with scary pricing for that kind of app.

I think it's also fine to just say "that's not our primary target market". Just thought it was worth pointing out as a (perhaps small?) segment of Heroku's market, if we're comparing apples to apples

Oh but you are! And it won't even cost you anything. I'd bet money your blog fits in our free tier, we just don't (a) tell you that and (b) solve the "what happens if there's a bandwidth burst" problem.