←back to thread

Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

(christine.website)
528 points sealeck | 4 comments | 15 May 22 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.84s | source
Show context
jamie_ca ◴[16 May 22 01:18 UTC] No.31392858[source]▶
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.

replies(2): >>31392876 #>>31393376 #
1. jshen ◴[16 May 22 03:16 UTC] No.31393376[source]▶
Render has a free DB tier
replies(1): >>31393632 #
2. alskdjflaskjdhf ◴[16 May 22 04:16 UTC] No.31393632[source]▶
Render's free DB tier isn't really usable when the data gets nuked after 90 days. Really strange decision IMO.
replies(2): >>31393827 #>>31401612 #
3. anurag ◴[16 May 22 05:09 UTC] No.31393827[source]▶
It's a temporary decision until we can build multi-tenant Postgres instances which will be perpetually free.
4. jshen ◴[16 May 22 18:40 UTC] No.31401612[source]▶
Good point. I haven’t used it because I use other free DB offerings. CockroachDB and cosmos DB both have free tiers.