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

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797 points burnerbob | 2 comments | 20 Jul 23 23:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.462s | source

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xyzzy_plugh ◴[21 Jul 23 03:11 UTC] No.36809571[source]▶

I think fly.io is pretty incredible but I can't help but feeling they're doomed to follow in heroku's footsteps (unclear if good or bad). They've built some pretty wild stuff and I can't help but wonder if they're overcooking the ocean instead of just solving problems for their users.

Durable and available storage are all they really need to draw me away from big cloud providers but this combined with their answer to S3 being "use S3 or run minio" means I'll never take them seriously.

This is a bad look folks, not sure how you can walk back days of silence and hiding threads. Just open an issue and talk to your users.

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1. yowlingcat ◴[21 Jul 23 04:12 UTC] No.36809908[source]▶

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At least I could rely on Heroku in production. I've wanted to give Fly.io a try but this gives me pause. I really do miss the Heroku DX whenever I'm putzing around with the increasing complexity of AWS.

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2. danjac ◴[21 Jul 23 05:05 UTC] No.36810196[source]▶

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For hobby projects - where I dare not touch AWS for fear of going bankrupt from a misconfigured service - I found the sweet spot to be Dokku on top of a Hetzner or Digital Ocean instance. It provides a Heroku like interface on top of cheap hosting, and is fine where you don't expect to scale very much.

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