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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by pier25 on Friday July 21, 2023 @12:35AM (#36810039)
So you didn't have a HA setup with multiple machines and volumes?
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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by nerpderp82 on Friday July 21, 2023 @01:20AM (#36810268)
Is that even possible on Fly?
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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by fmajid on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:15AM (#36810569)
He may have been talking about Fly themselves. Certainly having only a single machine to serve a wealthy metropolis of 8 million people seems like amateur hour.
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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by nerpderp82 on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:36AM (#36810688)
Fly sounds like they need some Conway's Law. A front end that designs the nice api and works on developer affordances and the backend that keeps it running and reliable.
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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by sanswork on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:25AM (#36810993)
They certainly don't only have a single machine in SYD since I have a bunch of machines running in SYD that we're impacted by this one.
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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by bongobingo1 on Friday July 21, 2023 @05:17AM (#36811724)
> machine to serve a wealthy metropolis of 8 million

It's actually the only region to serve the entire AU and NZ population with any reasonable latency. (Ok, Singapore can do in a pinch for at least sub 200ms.)

You'd wanna hope its more than one machine!

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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by tptacek on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:51AM (#36814488)
Obviously, we have a bunch of machines, both workers and edge servers, in Sydney. The whole Sydney region didn't go down; one worker did.
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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by sanswork on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:24AM (#36810987)
That's like the main selling point of Fly.
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