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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: 1.918s | 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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unmole ◴[21 Jul 23 03:58 UTC] No.36809844[source]▶
> use S3 or run minio

Is using Cloudflare R2 not an option?

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1. CameronNemo ◴[21 Jul 23 05:24 UTC] No.36810289[source]▶
Backblaze even has an s3 api these days.
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2. unmole ◴[21 Jul 23 05:50 UTC] No.36810419[source]▶
Backblaze B2 is much older than Cloudflare's offering. But from what I remember, they didn't have any presence outside North America.
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3. CameronNemo ◴[21 Jul 23 05:57 UTC] No.36810463[source]▶
B2 used to only have its own slightly different B2 API, but now has compact with the s3 api.

As far as their offering, one should definitely understand that there are limitations and do their research.

4. zimpenfish ◴[21 Jul 23 07:31 UTC] No.36811030[source]▶
They do have an EU Central region (see [1]) but "it is not possible to have multiple regions under one account" - you need an account in each region (although it seems you can maybe fudge around with groups to emulate multi-region access.)

[1] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034798433-Ca...