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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 | 1 comments | 20 Jul 23 23:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.325s | 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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asaddhamani ◴[21 Jul 23 05:03 UTC] No.36810185[source]▶
Curious to know, have you tried Render? What is the successor to Heroku in your eyes?
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1. shafyy ◴[21 Jul 23 07:34 UTC] No.36811045[source]▶
Scalingo is a good drop-in replacement for Heroku. They even use Heorku build packs. They've got good support and are an EU company with hosting in EU (if that's important to you).