Tuesday July 12, 2022; 6:43 PM EDT
- I built and maintained a Django website for our homeschool co-op for years. Started out on a $10/month VPS somewhere (I can't even remember where), and bounced it around to different providers, then to GKE, and finally to Digital Ocean Managed Kubernetes. DO's Kubernetes was super-stable, after I set it up I basically never had to touch it, and it ran well for over 2 years. All our kids are graduated now, so the co-op decided they wanted to use a different solution. I took this as an opportunity to move my hosted stuff out of DO and try out Fly.io.#
- I listen to a lot of Elixir podcasts and Fly supports one of them directly. I have to say it is a breath of fresh air after wrestling with k8s. I need k8s at my job, so I use it there every day. Having to use it for personal stuff, when I just want to throw a PoC up on the Internet, just adds friction.#
- Their free tier is quite generous. For my Elixir apps (including HiHat, which is probably how you are reading this post), the old blog I keep running from my daughter's cancer journey, and an HA-enabled (replicated) Pg instance, I'm still in the "free" zone. Though I would gladly pay them money and eventually probably will.#
- So here's a solid 👍 for Fly.io.#
- (image credit Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels)#
Tuesday July 12, 2022; 6:43 PM EDT
- I built and maintained a Django website for our homeschool co-op for years. Started out on a $10/month VPS somewhere (I can't even remember where), and bounced it around to different providers, then to GKE, and finally to Digital Ocean Managed Kubernetes. DO's Kubernetes was super-stable, after I set it up I basically never had to touch it, and it ran well for over 2 years. All our kids are graduated now, so the co-op decided they wanted to use a different solution. I took this as an opportunity to move my hosted stuff out of DO and try out Fly.io.#
- I listen to a lot of Elixir podcasts and Fly supports one of them directly. I have to say it is a breath of fresh air after wrestling with k8s. I need k8s at my job, so I use it there every day. Having to use it for personal stuff, when I just want to throw a PoC up on the Internet, just adds friction.#
- Their free tier is quite generous. For my Elixir apps (including HiHat, which is probably how you are reading this post), the old blog I keep running from my daughter's cancer journey, and an HA-enabled (replicated) Pg instance, I'm still in the "free" zone. Though I would gladly pay them money and eventually probably will.#
- So here's a solid 👍 for Fly.io.#
- (image credit Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels)#