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Been a fan of fly and have had most, if not all, of my side and semi-side projects on there for some time now. But...the ratio of good/fun/snarky blog posts to

Been a fan of fly and have had most, if not all, of my side and semi-side projects on there for some time now. But...the ratio of good/fun/snarky blog posts to reliable service has gotten a bit too large for me, starting to look for other providers at this point just in case they can't turn this trend around. Honestly been a good object lesson for me in the importance of backing up marketing/hype/"mind-share" stuff w/ absolute rock-solid performance/reliability or just forgoing the former for the latter. As an aside, it's also taking down some decently-load-bearing web infra like unpkg => https://www.unpkg.com/ https://www.unpkg.com/ see also https://community.fly.io/t/app-went-dead/11397/60 https://community.fly.io/t/app-went-dead/11397/60

ericpauley 4y ago
Wow, part of Delaware’s tax website was hanging on unpkg today, now I know why!
markthethomas 4y ago
(unpkg seems to be up now)
zachallaun 4y ago
Relevant response from the Fly community forums: https://community.fly.io/t/frequent-outages-is-really-demonstrating-fly-is-not-production-ready-yet/11502/3?u=zachallaun https://community.fly.io/t/frequent-outages-is-really-demons...
- markthethomas 4y ago
  Yeah, I saw; I've kept up w/ everything pretty closely. Still decently frustrating as a paying customer, but I hope they can figure it out. If they can and can show some real reliability, I'll be an even bigger fan.
  - zachallaun 4y ago
    Yep! More putting it out there for other folks. I’m also a somewhat frustrated paying customer, but as I’m dealing with my own growing pains, I relate to what they’re going through. I’ve personally migrated my DB to Crunchy to somewhat mitigate the risk.
    - markthethomas 4y ago
      That's a good point / thing that I've not thought about as much here. I would be much more frustrated if my primary datastores were hosted there. As things stand, their semi-hosted offering never really made sense to me (esp. now lol), but I do think if you get into the game of DB hosting there's almost another level of expectation even beyond basic compute (oddly enough)

ericpauley 4y ago

Wow, part of Delaware’s tax website was hanging on unpkg today, now I know why!

markthethomas 4y ago

(unpkg seems to be up now)

zachallaun 4y ago

Relevant response from the Fly community forums: https://community.fly.io/t/frequent-outages-is-really-demonstrating-fly-is-not-production-ready-yet/11502/3?u=zachallaun https://community.fly.io/t/frequent-outages-is-really-demons...

markthethomas 4y ago
Yeah, I saw; I've kept up w/ everything pretty closely. Still decently frustrating as a paying customer, but I hope they can figure it out. If they can and can show some real reliability, I'll be an even bigger fan.
- zachallaun 4y ago
  Yep! More putting it out there for other folks. I’m also a somewhat frustrated paying customer, but as I’m dealing with my own growing pains, I relate to what they’re going through. I’ve personally migrated my DB to Crunchy to somewhat mitigate the risk.
  - markthethomas 4y ago
    That's a good point / thing that I've not thought about as much here. I would be much more frustrated if my primary datastores were hosted there. As things stand, their semi-hosted offering never really made sense to me (esp. now lol), but I do think if you get into the game of DB hosting there's almost another level of expectation even beyond basic compute (oddly enough)