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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: 0.21s | source
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aledalgrande ◴[21 Jul 23 03:15 UTC] No.36809594[source]▶
Wondering if for small/bootstrapped projects there's any alternative people suggest? Fly has a nice UX and accessible prices, but it's unstable at best. I use the big clouds at work, but for personal they are $$$. Also I want to keep devops tending asymptotically to zero.
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1. danjac ◴[21 Jul 23 05:13 UTC] No.36810231[source]▶
I use Dokku on top of Hetzner for my hobby projects - hosting is super cheap, for a little extra I can add a mounted volume for storage, and if the project outgrows a single server I can always just break out of Dokku and use some Docker containers behind a load balancer.

If you are outside of Europe, Digital Ocean or Linode may work better for you.

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2. arcanemachiner ◴[21 Jul 23 05:19 UTC] No.36810263[source]▶
Hetzner has 2 data centers in the US now. 1 in the east and 1 in the west.
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4. solarkraft ◴[21 Jul 23 12:04 UTC] No.36812847[source]▶
I like Hetzner, they certainly radiate the feeling of quality (the management UI is great, for instance). The servers themselves are competitively priced (and they have ARM boxes!) - but for more storage than the little that they include I find the price pretty outrageous, compared to the base price, anyway. You'd end up about doubling the price for a "reasonable" amount of storage you can confidently run your base system on.