I respect that, and I want fly.io to succeed and be profitable and sustainable. But the core of your business already uses usage-based pricing. You can get a 1GB volume for $0.15/mo and run a 1GB RAM VM that scales to 0 and if it’s only receiving traffic for 5% of the time, that costs about $0.30/mo. It just seems like a big leap to then pay 10x that combined amount for a backup service (even a really cool backup service).
$5/mo might not seem like much, but it does add friction for students, hobbyists, tiny nonprofits, etc., especially in low income countries.
Also, there’s currently something like tens of millions of WordPress websites out there (as well as websites built with other software) on cheap and crappy shared hosting. Fly.io would be a much better option (more secure, more control over the software stack, ability to add geographical distribution) for running light traffic sites like that, especially if it included long-lived backups and PITR and was cheaper than what those site owners are currently paying.
Thanks. Looking forward to it 