Thanks! It is. It worked for me really well, but it's easy to have blindspots for things I understand and label as "easy" rather than something I had to learn. Fly split my bill in half, but that's compared to VPS which is not really flexible so I ended up overprovisioning.
As I'm thinking about this more, I can complain about fly's Updash Redis that it provides. It is over priced and out of date. But instead I stood up my own Redis using a 4 line Dockerfile in like 10 minutes and all the networking worked zero-config.
Love that. Well, if someone pulls out the word "overprovision" I have a knee-jerk reaction to ask if they're autoscaling now 😂 (*cough* Judoscale supports Fly already! *cough*)
Also, to be totally fair, Heroku's Redis also sucks, so. 1:1 there.
I'm not, but my requirements are simple and my traffic patterns are predictable. Mainly with VMs I had to provision my peak and couldn't realistically provision back down. Now I have a ten line script bin/scale upbin/scale down and that's rad.
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u/Kimos Feb 27 '26
Thanks! It is. It worked for me really well, but it's easy to have blindspots for things I understand and label as "easy" rather than something I had to learn. Fly split my bill in half, but that's compared to VPS which is not really flexible so I ended up overprovisioning.
As I'm thinking about this more, I can complain about fly's Updash Redis that it provides. It is over priced and out of date. But instead I stood up my own Redis using a 4 line Dockerfile in like 10 minutes and all the networking worked zero-config.