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Looks like they've quietly (?) deprecated the hobby plan too. Getting 3 instances a month for free was probably too good to be true forever..

4ggr0 2y ago
Why do you think that? Still visible here: https://fly.io/plans/personal https://fly.io/plans/personal I hope they don't cancel this plan, currently on it :D EDIT: Ohh, it's only visible when I'm logged in, weird... EDIT2: ...indeed > The paid Hobby plan and the Legacy Hobby plan are not available for new sign-ups. https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ damn :( > If you were on the free Hobby plan at the time that the paid Hobby plan became the default for new organizations, your plan is now called the Legacy Hobby plan. Your costs stay the same as they were, with no monthly subscription fee, and no included usage beyond the free resource allowances. so i get to use the legacy hobby plan because i'm grandfathered in, nice. only use it for a hobby project with one instance anyways(see bio), if they really decide to start charging me i'll gladly leave.
throwaway74566 2y ago
Heya, we deprecated pretty loudly! We made a post on the community forum [0] and we sent an email to all active accounts saying the following: > The first improvement we're excited to announce is that the $5 Hobby plan is no more. We're replacing it with a very simple Pay As You Go plan. On this plan there's no more upfront $5 charge and no minimum monthly commitment. You only pay for what you use. If you don't use anything for a given month you pay $0. You still need a credit card on file to prevent abuse. But your card is only charged if you use the service. [0]: https://community.fly.io/t/fresh-produce-pay-as-you-go-plan/20385 https://community.fly.io/t/fresh-produce-pay-as-you-go-plan/...
- dathinab 2y ago
  random side note, it would be nice if the region selector for regional pricing would display human readable region labels in addition to 3 letter acronyms.
  - fooey 2y ago
    yeah, it's basically impossible to compare regions right now they need a table that's a human readable name and an average/range for the cost modifier as compared to the baseline
- Aeolun 2y ago
  Why a throwaway?
- d-z-m 2y ago
  If you're going to stand behind your product, I'm not sure posting with a throwaway sends the strongest message.
  - jfentflyio 2y ago
    Sorry, didn’t intend for throwaway to come across as not standing behind the product. I wrote the community forum announcement and was one of the people that worked on implementing our PAYG plan. I just wanted to clarify that we didn’t deprecate silently, so I quickly created an account to do so. Apologies for any confusion this caused!
  - tptacek 2y ago
    If anyone's ever wondering how carefully choreographed our HN presence is, please refer them directly to this subthread, which, for posterity's sake, I will note is occurring on the morning of July 4.
- itake 2y ago
  I didn’t get this email. I don’t check the forums for announcements
  - ungamedplayer 2y ago
    I got three correspondence from fly on this matter when it happened. They absolutely were transparent and clear about it.
    - davidgl 2y ago
      Same
gregors 2y ago
Whoa, they did get rid of it. Not surprising in the least, but they definitely did it with a minimum of fanfare. When Heroku got rid of their free plans at least they were upfront and released a blog post about it. Maybe they did and I just didn't notice.

4ggr0 2y ago

Why do you think that? Still visible here: https://fly.io/plans/personal https://fly.io/plans/personal I hope they don't cancel this plan, currently on it :D EDIT: Ohh, it's only visible when I'm logged in, weird... EDIT2: ...indeed > The paid Hobby plan and the Legacy Hobby plan are not available for new sign-ups. https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ damn :( > If you were on the free Hobby plan at the time that the paid Hobby plan became the default for new organizations, your plan is now called the Legacy Hobby plan. Your costs stay the same as they were, with no monthly subscription fee, and no included usage beyond the free resource allowances. so i get to use the legacy hobby plan because i'm grandfathered in, nice. only use it for a hobby project with one instance anyways(see bio), if they really decide to start charging me i'll gladly leave.

throwaway74566 2y ago

Heya, we deprecated pretty loudly! We made a post on the community forum [0] and we sent an email to all active accounts saying the following: > The first improvement we're excited to announce is that the $5 Hobby plan is no more. We're replacing it with a very simple Pay As You Go plan. On this plan there's no more upfront $5 charge and no minimum monthly commitment. You only pay for what you use. If you don't use anything for a given month you pay $0. You still need a credit card on file to prevent abuse. But your card is only charged if you use the service. [0]: https://community.fly.io/t/fresh-produce-pay-as-you-go-plan/20385 https://community.fly.io/t/fresh-produce-pay-as-you-go-plan/...

dathinab 2y ago
random side note, it would be nice if the region selector for regional pricing would display human readable region labels in addition to 3 letter acronyms.
- fooey 2y ago
  yeah, it's basically impossible to compare regions right now they need a table that's a human readable name and an average/range for the cost modifier as compared to the baseline
Aeolun 2y ago
Why a throwaway?
d-z-m 2y ago
If you're going to stand behind your product, I'm not sure posting with a throwaway sends the strongest message.
- jfentflyio 2y ago
  Sorry, didn’t intend for throwaway to come across as not standing behind the product. I wrote the community forum announcement and was one of the people that worked on implementing our PAYG plan. I just wanted to clarify that we didn’t deprecate silently, so I quickly created an account to do so. Apologies for any confusion this caused!
- tptacek 2y ago
  If anyone's ever wondering how carefully choreographed our HN presence is, please refer them directly to this subthread, which, for posterity's sake, I will note is occurring on the morning of July 4.
itake 2y ago
I didn’t get this email. I don’t check the forums for announcements
- ungamedplayer 2y ago
  I got three correspondence from fly on this matter when it happened. They absolutely were transparent and clear about it.
  - davidgl 2y ago
    Same

gregors 2y ago

Whoa, they did get rid of it. Not surprising in the least, but they definitely did it with a minimum of fanfare. When Heroku got rid of their free plans at least they were upfront and released a blog post about it. Maybe they did and I just didn't notice.