Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

i'm running https://wikinewsfeed.org on fly.io

very satisfied so far and would definitely deploy there next time!

the killer feature i like the most is automatic prometheus metrics collection

one thing i don't really like about fly.io is the fact that they charge money for free Let's Encrypt SSL certs

They aren’t charging for the certificate so much as they’re charging for TLS termination, infrastructure, DNS, caching, handling invalidations, etc. It’s also 10 free then $0.10/mo per certificate thereafter (or $2/mo for wildcard). They also donate 50% of their TLS fees to Let’s Encrypt.

So, yes, some users will have have to pay for certificates, but it seems extremely reasonable to me.

well, maybe

but, my expectation as a PaaS customer in 2022 is that you shouldn't need to pay for a SSL cert

the expectation is because nobody else charges for them anymore, not even their competitors

Do they? I feel like you're just uncomfortable with line-item pricing and prefer flat all-in-one pricing. What are the other competitors that offer actual PaaS instead of static-site hosting?

* Render.com charges $0.60 per custom domain after the first 25

* Heroku gives you "free" custom certificates once you're on a $7/mo minimum.