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I just saw this was on fly and thought the same thing lol. But I also thought to myself “this is actually a good use for fly, nice simple app to see if there’s

I just saw this was on fly and thought the same thing lol. But I also thought to myself “this is actually a good use for fly, nice simple app to see if there’s traction before moving to something reliable.”

osener 3y ago
Do you have any specific references or instances that indicate fly.io as being unreliable?
- itake 3y ago
  FlyIO deleted my database and I lost all data. Fly told me in 7-days they would automatically update my redis database. My plan was to manually update it that weekend. 3 days later, I get an alert that they migrated the db early. b/c I didn't have storage enabled, all data was gone. Support ticket: https://community.fly.io/t/forced-migration-to-v2-with-deceitful-warnings/14431 https://community.fly.io/t/forced-migration-to-v2-with-decei...
  - iudqnolq 3y ago
    Fly.io definitely has an innaproprately casual attitude, and it's a big deal they migrated you early. However, they do point out that literally any reboot would have wiped your data and that that could have happened at any time previously. I think there's some truth to the suggestion I've seen on HN that the users running into the worst fly.io issues are the ones aiming to spend single digit amounts per month and not paying for enough machines and disk space to have reliability be possible
    - itake 3y ago
      Like I said in the forum history, I should have paid for persistent storage, but this data lose could have been avoided during a planned reboot. FlyIO knew that there was no storage attached to the redis instance and there would be data loss, but they still chose to reboot it ahead of schedule.
- jjice 3y ago
  Very anecdotal so take this lightly but the past year or so of Fly.io threads have had a lot of comments expressing negative experiences with reliability. I have no experience myself so I can't comment, but if you search for a fairly recent thread you'll probably find some people's experiences.
  - httgp 3y ago
    I was about to start building a new application and I really wanted to give Fly a shot, but the CLI literally wouldn’t connect to their builder API. The status page was all green, but clearly things weren’t working. I moved to Render and I’ve had a much better experience.
- constantly 3y ago
  Here’s a good thread where this is discussed in detail, plus my own anecdotal experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808296
- internet_hugs 3y ago
  I had something deployed on fly for a few months and was regularly running into random restarts and connection issues. I ended up switching to DO’s app platform and haven’t seen any of that since.
lib-dev 3y ago
Does fly do runaway billing?
- ceejayoz 3y ago
  Bandwidth would be the concern, I think. They won't auto-scale machines up/down for you.
  - iancarroll 3y ago
    Fly bandwidth pricing is pretty competitive; if bandwidth is an issue your bill will be cheaper on Fly than most other providers.

osener 3y ago

Do you have any specific references or instances that indicate fly.io as being unreliable?

itake 3y ago
FlyIO deleted my database and I lost all data. Fly told me in 7-days they would automatically update my redis database. My plan was to manually update it that weekend. 3 days later, I get an alert that they migrated the db early. b/c I didn't have storage enabled, all data was gone. Support ticket: https://community.fly.io/t/forced-migration-to-v2-with-deceitful-warnings/14431 https://community.fly.io/t/forced-migration-to-v2-with-decei...
- iudqnolq 3y ago
  Fly.io definitely has an innaproprately casual attitude, and it's a big deal they migrated you early. However, they do point out that literally any reboot would have wiped your data and that that could have happened at any time previously. I think there's some truth to the suggestion I've seen on HN that the users running into the worst fly.io issues are the ones aiming to spend single digit amounts per month and not paying for enough machines and disk space to have reliability be possible
  - itake 3y ago
    Like I said in the forum history, I should have paid for persistent storage, but this data lose could have been avoided during a planned reboot. FlyIO knew that there was no storage attached to the redis instance and there would be data loss, but they still chose to reboot it ahead of schedule.
jjice 3y ago
Very anecdotal so take this lightly but the past year or so of Fly.io threads have had a lot of comments expressing negative experiences with reliability. I have no experience myself so I can't comment, but if you search for a fairly recent thread you'll probably find some people's experiences.
- httgp 3y ago
  I was about to start building a new application and I really wanted to give Fly a shot, but the CLI literally wouldn’t connect to their builder API. The status page was all green, but clearly things weren’t working. I moved to Render and I’ve had a much better experience.
constantly 3y ago
Here’s a good thread where this is discussed in detail, plus my own anecdotal experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808296
internet_hugs 3y ago
I had something deployed on fly for a few months and was regularly running into random restarts and connection issues. I ended up switching to DO’s app platform and haven’t seen any of that since.

lib-dev 3y ago

Does fly do runaway billing?

ceejayoz 3y ago
Bandwidth would be the concern, I think. They won't auto-scale machines up/down for you.
- iancarroll 3y ago
  Fly bandwidth pricing is pretty competitive; if bandwidth is an issue your bill will be cheaper on Fly than most other providers.