Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by abwizz on Friday July 21, 2023 @05:29AM (#36811798)

i'll guess they pick optimized components for it.

like the longtime workhorse was a high performance skylake desktop cpu w/o ecc ram

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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by ushakov on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:24AM (#36813464)

The secret is in the cooling system. They have individual cooling systems for each server. Less heat = longer sustained loads

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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by abwizz on Saturday July 22, 2023 @04:55AM (#36824593)

pardon my ingorance but i cannot quite see how cooling individual machines vs. the hole rack or row makes a difference in total heat production per machine

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