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Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by zackify on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @08:04AM (#42245352)
The reliability is very very bad. It was really insane that 2 times in the past few months the main dashboard was down as I’m demoing something. Not to mention the deploy outages and almost daily some random thing was unavailable or delayed.

I had to leave a few months ago after the price raises and how many times my boss saw some issue in the project I had with them.

They also deprecated and removed their sqlite backup service. Back to GCP and not worrying about so many outages now.

Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by pc86 on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @09:07AM (#42245870)
Now just to worry about GCP getting shut down with a few days' notice. /s

But in all seriousness the gall to raise prices before actually fixing the reliability problems is pretty shocking. I understand it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing where you maybe are tight on resources but there's no scenario where it's acceptable to have a product with these kinds of problems and then raise prices on existing customers who are putting up with it.

Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by encom on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @09:18AM (#42245963)
No /s is needed. Relying on any Google product long term is crazy.
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by sofixa on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @11:14AM (#42246959)
Google's b2b products are relatively stable (relative to their b2c free services). You generally get somewhere like a year of notice if they shut it down.
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by pajeetz on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @01:19PM (#42248334)
theres just so many anecdotes/nightmare stories from people using fly.io here much more than the ones linked by GP

expect to see more of these "post-mortem apologies" from fly.io in the future because it won't be the last

Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by tptacek on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @04:48PM (#42250422)
You're right. It won't. Nobody could claim otherwise.
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by pajeetz on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @08:25PM (#42252007)
"Expect more downtime in the near future, btw please host your business critical applications with our cloud offering" did i read that correctly?
Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) by tptacek on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @08:50PM (#42252148)
You did.