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I probably have to fiddle with the settings to stay within 3 CPUs, but since it was heavily recommended as an alternative to Heroku's free tier, I'm a bit disap

by fhd2 4y ago

I probably have to fiddle with the settings to stay within 3 CPUs, but since it was heavily recommended as an alternative to Heroku's free tier, I'm a bit disappointed I have to. Maybe they never intended to be recommended for that, don't know.

brundolf 4y ago
I haven't used it, but from what I know it's not a very good analogue to Heroku (other than being an easy-ish/dev-focused host). Their pricing model is pretty different
selcuka 4y ago
True, Heroku allowed as many dynos as you want when their free tier existed, however, they had a limit of 1,000 hours per month. That pretty much meant you couldn't run more than 1 VM (~744 hours/month) for free. Fly.io is more generous as those 3 free VMs can be up and running all the time (but VMs have 256MB of RAM instead of 512).
nextaccountic 4y ago
Right now the most generous free tier is from Oracle (24GB RAM machines feels unreal). But you can find other free tier offerings here: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
- lbriner 4y ago
  I tried to look at OCI but was immediately bamboozled with a slow as heck web site (locations table took 15 seconds to load!), a tonne of management BS about "aligning strategic objectives to operational constraints in a dynamic environment" and then was expected to immediately book a call with a salesperson. No thanks Oracle even for 24GB free VMs!
  - gl-prod 4y ago
    Go to Oracle’s subreddit. It’s full of people whose free trial accounts were terminated.
    - ilyt 4y ago
      "zombiefied" would be better description. Account exists but you don't have permission to do anything and you don't even have permission(lol) to upgrade to paid account
      - gl-prod 4y ago
        And you don't even have access to your data to backup or migrate.
- ilyt 4y ago
  They will yeet your machines without any info tho. I had test (smallest in free tier) VM that just got destroyed one day. But that is not all My account is now "inactive", with no option to activate it and with no option to even pay and upgrade to paid tier. The account is in some broken state where half of the dialogues produce dialogues like "Authorization failed or requested resource not found", like I had account with permissions denied to everything. Even the "upgrade to paid tier" option gives > You do not have access to perform this operation. Please contact your cloud account administrator for additional access. Utter fucking disgrace
- jffry 4y ago
  On top of what other people said: capacity for the free tier machines is very limited. I wanted one to fool around with and it took multiple weeks of trying daily at varying times before I was able to actually allocate a VM.
gl-prod 4y ago
The free tier is 256mb per vm (up to 3 VMs). You can't use or increase VM's memory to 512 or you will be charged.

by fhd2 4y ago

brundolf 4y ago

I haven't used it, but from what I know it's not a very good analogue to Heroku (other than being an easy-ish/dev-focused host). Their pricing model is pretty different

selcuka 4y ago

True, Heroku allowed as many dynos as you want when their free tier existed, however, they had a limit of 1,000 hours per month. That pretty much meant you couldn't run more than 1 VM (~744 hours/month) for free. Fly.io is more generous as those 3 free VMs can be up and running all the time (but VMs have 256MB of RAM instead of 512).

nextaccountic 4y ago

Right now the most generous free tier is from Oracle (24GB RAM machines feels unreal). But you can find other free tier offerings here: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev

lbriner 4y ago
I tried to look at OCI but was immediately bamboozled with a slow as heck web site (locations table took 15 seconds to load!), a tonne of management BS about "aligning strategic objectives to operational constraints in a dynamic environment" and then was expected to immediately book a call with a salesperson. No thanks Oracle even for 24GB free VMs!
- gl-prod 4y ago
  Go to Oracle’s subreddit. It’s full of people whose free trial accounts were terminated.
  - ilyt 4y ago
    "zombiefied" would be better description. Account exists but you don't have permission to do anything and you don't even have permission(lol) to upgrade to paid account
    - gl-prod 4y ago
      And you don't even have access to your data to backup or migrate.
ilyt 4y ago
They will yeet your machines without any info tho. I had test (smallest in free tier) VM that just got destroyed one day. But that is not all My account is now "inactive", with no option to activate it and with no option to even pay and upgrade to paid tier. The account is in some broken state where half of the dialogues produce dialogues like "Authorization failed or requested resource not found", like I had account with permissions denied to everything. Even the "upgrade to paid tier" option gives > You do not have access to perform this operation. Please contact your cloud account administrator for additional access. Utter fucking disgrace
jffry 4y ago
On top of what other people said: capacity for the free tier machines is very limited. I wanted one to fool around with and it took multiple weeks of trying daily at varying times before I was able to actually allocate a VM.

gl-prod 4y ago

The free tier is 256mb per vm (up to 3 VMs). You can't use or increase VM's memory to 512 or you will be charged.