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 Dylan16807 on Saturday July 22, 2023 @03:34AM (#36824212)

They're not responsible for extreme data recovery, but (almost?) all of the customer data volumes on that server were completely intact. They damn well should be responsible for getting that data back to their customers, whether or not they get the server going again.

If you run off a single drive, and the drive dies, any resulting data loss is your fault. But not if something else dies.

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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by markonen on Saturday July 22, 2023 @05:07AM (#36824655)

I'm absolutely 100% certain that AWS (for example) wouldn't do that for you with the instance types that feature direct attached storage.

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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by Dylan16807 on Saturday July 22, 2023 @01:19PM (#36827975)

Directly attached storage in AWS is a special niche that disappears when you so much as hibernate. And even then they talk about how disk failure loses the data but power failure won't.

This is much closer to EBS breaking. It happens sometimes, but if the data is easily accessible then it shouldn't get tossed.

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