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pech0rin ◴[] 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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rendaw ◴[] No.36810044[source]
Half the critical info for using their services is buried in some thread in the forum (posted by an employee). How bad is their documentation pipeline that they can't with similar effort get that same info in the documentation? Requests to put stuff in the docs go ignored.

The answer to _any_ usage related forum question should be:

1. It's in the documentation <here> (maybe I just added it)

2. If you're left with any confusion, let me know and I'll update the documentation to resolve it

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