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Does anyone here have experience using Fly? I’ve seen a few of their posts and it seems quite nice.
by hstaab 5y ago
Does anyone here have experience using Fly? I’ve seen a few of their posts and it seems quite nice.
- mrkurt 5y agoYou can get a reasonable idea of the problems people run into on our community forum. I use Fly for everything but that may not be the best signal for you: https://community.fly.io/ https://community.fly.io/
- wferrell 5y agoI recently setup my own http://logpaste.com http://logpaste.com to give them a try. Fly was quite easy to use.
- mtlynch 5y agoI discovered fly a month or two ago, and I've been incredibly impressed. The dev experience is really nice, and the team is super responsive.
- Aeolun 5y agoIt seems fairly expensive for what you get?
- austinpena 5y agoFor multi region set up it’s very competitively priced IMO. I have some pretty important services I run on there and my availability has beaten anything I’ve run on GCP.
- mtlynch 5y agoFor which resources? I'm not a heavy cloud services user, so the prices aren't that important to me, but fly.io seems to be on par with other providers. I think of Heroku as fly's most direct competitor. Heroku charges $50/mo for a dedicated VM with 1 GB RAM, whereas fly charges $31/mo for dedicated VM with 2 GB RAM.
- itsjloh 5y agoI use fly to host a few apps and its fantastic. Extremely responsive and it handling TLS offload is great from a performance perspective. I find their billing dashboard leaves a bit to be desired, I'm still very nervous I'm going to get a big unexpected bill.
- mrkurt 5y agoIf you get a big surprise bill, email me and we'll fix it. We're not interested in surprising people with bills.
- jbarham 5y agoI recently started using Fly to host the anycast DNS name servers for my DNS hosting service SlickDNS (https://www.slickdns.com/ https://www.slickdns.com/). There were some initial teething issues as Fly only recently added UDP support, but they were very responsive to the various bugs I reported and fixed them. My name servers have been running problem free for several weeks now. The Fly UX via the flyctl command-line app is excellent, very Heroku-like. For apps that need anycast the only real alternative to Fly that I found is AWS Global Accelerator, but it limits you to two anycast IP addresses, it's much more expensive than Fly and you're fighting the AWS API the whole time.
- thegreatpeter 5y agoLove Fly. Been using it for about a year now? We host Draftbit in a bunch of regions. The community is growing and they know their shit.