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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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asaddhamani ◴[] No.36810185[source]
Curious to know, have you tried Render? What is the successor to Heroku in your eyes?
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brundolf ◴[] No.36810504[source]
Render has been my drop-in successor to Heroku. No complaints except their weird team pricing, which doesn't matter for solo projects
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anacrolix ◴[] No.36812076[source]
Render didn't support Docker images last I checked, and the worst part of Heroku and cloning it was not actually having a locally reproducible build image. I want to deploy what I've built locally, not hand my source over to some magical pipeline.
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1. renderjake ◴[] No.36812599[source]
We recently added support for deploying images from container registries. Currently in early access.