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This is interesting! I like using Fly.io today, but I’m currently using a single node for most stuff with SQLite. Having some kind of failover and replication w
by jchw 5y ago
This is interesting! I like using Fly.io today, but I’m currently using a single node for most stuff with SQLite. Having some kind of failover and replication would be pretty awesome. I have yet to try Litestream and it does sound like there’s some issues to work out that could be pretty nasty, but I’ll definitely be watching.
Fly.io is very nice. It’s what I hoped Hyper.sh would be, except it isn’t dead. That said, there are a couple things I worry about… like, there’s no obvious way to resize disks, you pretty much need to make a new disk that’s larger, launch a new instance with it mounted, and transfer data from an existing instance. If it was automated, I probably wouldn’t care, though a zero downtime way of resizing disks would be a massive improvement. Another huge concern is just how good the free tier is. I actually am bothered that I basically don’t get billed. Hyper.sh felt a bit overpriced, and by comparison Fly.io does scale up in price but for small uses it feels like theft.
- michaeldwan 5y ago> there’s no obvious way to resize disks Yes, this sucks right now. Resizable disks is on our list, we just need somebody to spend a few days on it. Luckily we're hiring platform engineers [1] to work on fun problems like that. > I actually am bothered that I basically don’t get billed. We actually had a bug that skipped charging a bunch of accounts. :) Regardless, we're not overly concerned about making $1/mo from small accounts. Large customers more than make up for it. Turns out building something devs _choose_ to use on their free time often leads to using it at work too. [1] https://fly.io/jobs/platform-product-engineer/ https://fly.io/jobs/platform-product-engineer/
- ignoramous 5y ago> Yes, this sucks right now. If I may, really need to hire sudhirj back or get someone doing the tedious work of answering dumb/advanced questions in the forums and doing follow-ups! Even if it doesn't scale, this high-touch forum engagement may not only help inform the product roadmap but help eventually cultivate a stronger community.