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Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

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528 points sealeck | 5 comments | 15 May 22 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.776s | 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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1. franciscop ◴[16 May 22 00:16 UTC] No.31392496[source]▶
This is the reason I use Heroku and would never on a personal level use some of the bigger solutions, or apparently Fly.io. As an individual and despite being generally careful, I just cannot have a tiny risk of having a $100k+ accidental bill. I'd rather my project goes down if there's a DDOS attack, or if I made a typo and created an infinite loop. If I take some of my hobby projects to the "next level", it'd be def behind a LTD company.
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2. jshen ◴[16 May 22 03:10 UTC] No.31393356[source]▶
Have you looked at render? Been using it for my hobby sites and am very happy with it.
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3. crummy ◴[16 May 22 06:24 UTC] No.31394114[source]▶
Is it possible to rack up a 100k+ bill with personal projects on platforms like fly.io? Like some absolutely massive DDOS or something?
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4. xchaotic ◴[16 May 22 10:04 UTC] No.31395208[source]▶
It could also be a simple user error- there’s been stories on HN on how people racked up massive bills for example because CI was running continuously etc.
5. joriskok1 ◴[17 May 22 12:11 UTC] No.31409316[source]▶
I also really like render, very easy to use.