These events that result in decommissioning of hosts is a cause of deployment failures for us due to zombie machines lurking around seemingly forever. I hope there’s work going on to address this issue, as from what I observe, in a fleet as large as Fly’s, such events are going to be the norm (for instance, for the past few months, I have had to deal with zombies at least once every month). The debt always comes due; whether anyone chooses to believe in it or not is immaterial.
Re: Volumes: Apart from retaining backups for longer than a month, please let users export backups in the interim? flyctl import / export volume snapshots · Issue #1296 · superfly/flyctl · GitHub
And, thanks for the thoughtful and reassuring responses above. Appreciate it