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spiderice ◴[] No.36809650[source]
There is now a response to the support thread from Fly[1]:

> Hi Folks,

> Just wanted to provide some more details on what happened here, both with the thread and the host issue.

> The radio silence in this thread wasn’t intentional, and I’m sorry if it seemed that way. While we check the forum regularly, sometimes topics get missed. Unfortunately this thread one slipped by us until today, when someone saw it and flagged it internally. If we’d seen it earlier, we’d have offered more details the.

> More on what happened: We had a single host in the syd region go down, hard, with multiple issues. In short, the host required a restart, then refused to come back online cleanly. Once back online, it refused to connect with our service discovery system. Ultimately it required a significant amount of manual work to recover.

> Apps running multiple instances would have seen the instance on this host go unreachable, but other instances would have remained up and new instances could be added. Single instance apps on this host were unreachable for the duration of the outage. We strongly recommend running multiple instances to mitigate the impact of single-host failures like this.

> The main status page (status.fly.io) is used for global and regional outages. For single host issues like this one we post alerts on the status tab in the dashboard (the emergency maintenance message @south-paw posted). This was an abnormally long single-host failure and we’re reassessing how these longer-lasting single-host outages are communicated.

> It sucks to feel ignored when you’re having issues, even when it’s not intentional. Sorry we didn’t catch this thread sooner.

[1] https://community.fly.io/t/service-interruption-cant-destroy...

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bongobingo1 ◴[] No.36809824[source]
Seems like the OP should have made a HN thread in the first place instead of posting to community.stri^H^H^H^Hfly.io
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revskill ◴[] No.36811005[source]
But HN is not a customer service forum ?
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1. gtirloni ◴[] No.36812539[source]
It's often used as an escalation point when people can't get support from certain companies (most notably, Google). If an employee lurks in here and sees your post, they might contact the right people to fix your issue.

Smaller companies also do a lot of PR damage control and constantly monitor HN for threads complaining about their services.

You're not wrong but that's how it works.

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2. tptacek ◴[] No.36814790[source]
That's not what happened here. We're talking about an outage that was resolved days ago, long before this thread went up.