Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

The one thing I'm really missing after looking at a number of hosts (Fly and Render being top of list otherwise) is a free database tier.

For a toy app, 10k db rows (across all tables) from Heroku was enough to get the app running and have a public URL to share, and I miss those days.

I'm working on a fresh Rails7 toy app to try out some new features, and my current thinking is to use sqlite, and add an initializer early in the stack to migrate+seed the db if it's missing. If it's ephemeral that's fine, I just want some baseline data to interact with the app at a distance beyond localhost.

Fly's free resource allowance includes Postgres

Render has a free DB tier

Render's free DB tier isn't really usable when the data gets nuked after 90 days. Really strange decision IMO.

It's a temporary decision until we can build multi-tenant Postgres instances which will be perpetually free.

Good point. I haven’t used it because I use other free DB offerings. CockroachDB and cosmos DB both have free tiers.