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Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by veggieWHITES on Monday November 25, 2024 @09:39PM (#42242103)
I was considering these guys the other day until I saw their pricing page: https://fly.io/pricing/

(There's not a single price on there, why even create the page?)

Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by rascul on Monday November 25, 2024 @09:47PM (#42242159)
There's a link to what appears to be the actual pricing page https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/

There's also a link to the pricing calculator https://fly.io/calculator

Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by totetsu on Monday November 25, 2024 @10:02PM (#42242227)
Is that calculator hourly or monthly?
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by radicalriddler on Monday November 25, 2024 @10:50PM (#42242424)
Literally says "Monthly Costs" in the green panel on the right that calculates the total.
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by eviks on Monday November 25, 2024 @10:54PM (#42242450)
It's right there: "Monthly Cost"
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by veggieWHITES on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @03:21PM (#42259344)
It just proves they're not proud of their pricing imho. I shouldn't have to read a full page and figure out where to click after I have already clicked on the "pricing" navbar tab.

Too many GPU providers to keep track of, had to move on.

Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by tptacek on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @04:35PM (#42260010)
LOL. If you're not charging us for it, is there any other psychoanalysis you might be willing to provide?

Alternatively: sometimes, a weirdly-positioned pricing page is just a weirdly-positioned pricing page.

Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by veggieWHITES on Thursday November 28, 2024 @02:16PM (#42267855)
Psychoanalysis?

This is a technology review and discussion website. It's poor design to put a link to a pricing page and not list any prices.

You're literally the only GPU provider that does that.

I was trying to give you my perspective as a consumer since I know you frequent these forums but I apologize if I have offended you in some way.

Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by akerl_ on Thursday November 28, 2024 @04:21PM (#42268610)
You didn’t present a consumer perspective, you offered your hot take on why the company has set up the site in the way they did.
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by schmichael on Monday November 25, 2024 @09:45PM (#42242150)
The prices are just one click deeper. Hardly a nefarious dark pattern.
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by Aeolun on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:13AM (#42243555)
OMG, that's hilarious. I use them, and I know what my prices are, but I'd never noticed that the page called pricing doesn't actually have any.
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by tptacek on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @05:07PM (#42250598)
We've always had public pricing; you can't do a metered cloud provider without a rate sheet. But it's been part of our product documentation, rather than the front page of the website, until recently; there's a whole saga behind it, which gets into whether we offer "plans" or not, how support works, all that jazz, all of which kept us from putting together a marketing pricing page.
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by Aeolun on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @07:03PM (#42251501)
Yeah, I’m not trying to say you didn’t. After all, I wouldn’t have signed up just to find out the price. I just never noticed it wasn’t actually on the pricing page.
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by tptacek on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @07:08PM (#42251525)
I'm overexplainey, because (looks around at whole thread). These aren't fun!

Anyways we've been dunking on ourselves for not having a proper pricing page longer than anyone else could have. :)