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Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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797 points burnerbob | 4 comments | 20 Jul 23 23:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pech0rin ◴[21 Jul 23 04:02 UTC] No.36809852[source]▶
I really want to love Fly.io. It's super easy to get setup and use, but to be honest I don't think anyone should be building mission critical applications on their service. I ended up migrating everything over to AWS (which I reallllly didn't want to do) because:

* Frequent machines not working, random outages, builds not working

* Support wasn't responsive, didn't read my questions (kept asking same questions over and over again) -- I paid for a higher tier specifically for support.

* General lack of features (can't add sidecars, hard to integrate with external monitoring solutions)

* Lack of documentation -- For happy path its good but any edge cases the documentation is really lacking.

Anyway, for hobby projects its fine and nice. I still host a lot of personal projects there. But I have to move my companies infrastructure off of it because it ended up costing us too much time/frustration, etc. I really had high hopes going into it as I had read it was a spiritual successor of sorts to Heroku which was an amazing service in its day, but I don't think its there yet.

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1. steve_adams_86 ◴[21 Jul 23 04:12 UTC] No.36809906[source]▶
My experience was the same. I stopped using it for hobby projects recently when I had two consecutive days of being unable to build anything. The same stuff that built the week before, built fine locally, then eventually built on fly again — just, inexplicable downtime with no word from support.

Their free tier is very generous. You can get a lot happening and stay under their billing threshold. But, I like to get stuff done. I have a family. I code in my spare time very rarely, and I need a service that’ll let me just build my goddamn project. This was a small static site built by Node, so nothing spectacular happening.

I do wish them the best though. They have an excellent product in their tooling, and if they could stabilize their infrastructure I’d love to try them again.

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2. robertlagrant ◴[21 Jul 23 08:31 UTC] No.36811434[source]▶
> I need a service that’ll let me just build my goddamn project. This was a small static site built by Node, so nothing spectacular happening

(Cloudflare|GitHub|GitLab) Pages should do you nicely!

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3. steve_adams_86 ◴[22 Jul 23 05:02 UTC] No.36823440[source]▶
I actually use digitalocean and it’s pretty solid for static sites (they’re free, I think). It’s also convenient because that’s where pretty much all of my stuff lives these days. I used to put piles of stuff on GitHub pages though! I have some great memories of learning how awesome static sites could be, and how cool it was that they’d deploy just by pushing your repository. That seemed like magic back then.
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4. steve_adams_86 ◴[22 Jul 23 16:15 UTC] No.36827468{3}[source]▶
Free up until 3 static sites, that’s what it was (on the app platform)