Machines - fees

[Ephtar]

Hi,

I just created an “App” for SWGOH games to track arena movements.

When I created it, fly.io automatically gave me 2 machines.
However, I only need 1 machine so I deleted one.
I noticed 2 things:

1. I am going to be charged “Current month so far” from $0 to $0.02.
   It is not a lot but the aim was not to pay.
2. On the “App builders”, the machine was before active and now is suspended " [fly-builder-small-fog-XXX.fly.dev]"
   → I tried several times to delete it but it keeps coming back (for some reasons, I’m sure).

So:

1. how to avoid paying those fees ? Should I put back the machine that I deleted ?
   As I saw that “Fly.io will start charging for stopped machines”.

Thank you for your help.

[madhuryadutta]

@Ephtar

When I created it, fly.io automatically gave me 2 machines.
However, I only need 1 machine so I deleted one.

By default ,Fly created two machine for high availability . If you want to deploy only a single machine ,use the following flag .

fly deploy --ha=false

@Ephtar

I am going to be charged “Current month so far” from $0 to $0.02.
It is not a lot but the aim was not to pay.

It’s maybe because of RootFS fees .Fly charge for stop machines RootFS usage. According to fly, you can stop this charge by running your machine 24/7. To disable auto stopping your machine, please made following change to your fly.toml file

auto_stop_machines = false

@Ephtar

On the “App builders”, the machine was before active and now is suspended " [fly-builder-small-fog-XXX.fly.dev]"
→ I tried several times to delete it but it keeps coming back (for some reasons, I’m sure).

App builder are free machines which are created for deploy your apps to fly platform. App Builders are required for every single build.So if you delete all the app builders and initiate a new build/deploy for your app, a new app builder machine will be created .That is the reason they are keeps coming back.

They are completely Free. You don’t need to worry about them , They will automatically delete after a specific time and not added to your bill.

@Ephtar

how to avoid paying those fees ? Should I put back the machine that I deleted ?
As I saw that “Fly.io will start charging for stopped machines”.

Related Discussions are here-

We are going to start collecting charges for Stopped Machines RootFS starting April 25th

Ill investigate this asap, thanks for sharing! Also just letting everyone this preview charge has no contact to our billing system, its just a preview so rest assured this will not reflect any invoices.

[Ephtar]

Thank you for your answer.

@madhuryadutta

By default ,Fly created two machine for high availability . If you want to deploy only a single machine ,use the following flag .

fly deploy --ha=false

I tried but it is not working. There are always 2 machines working.

This is the information of the fly.toml:

"app = ‘march-2024-squad’
primary_region = ‘ams’

[env]
ALLY_CODES_URL=“http://rotbot.eu/sniper/ac-XXX-squad.json”
ARENA_TYPE=“SQUAD”
DISCORD_WEB_HOOK=“https://discord.com/api/webhooks/”

[deploy]
ha = false → Not working

[http_service]
internal_port = XX
force_https = true
auto_stop_machines = false → OK
auto_start_machines = true
min_machines_running = 0
processes = [‘app’]

[[vm]]
memory = ‘1gb’
cpu_kind = ‘shared’
cpus = 1"

Thanks

[madhuryadutta]

@Ephtar

I tried but it is not working. There are always 2 machines working.

I think you will find your solution in this post .

--ha=false command still starts two machines

I’m working on minor project and don’t need two machines as they interfer each others logic. I’m trying to run flyctl deploy --ha=false but it still shows [2/2] Machine. How do I fix it? my fly.toml is [build] [http_service] internal_port = 3000 force_https = true auto_stop_machines = true auto_start_machines = false min_machines_running = 1 processes = [“app”]

@Ephtar

[[vm]]
memory = ‘1gb’
cpu_kind = ‘shared’
cpus = 1"

Just a reminder, this configuration is not eligible for free allowance . Free allowance is Up to 3 shared-cpu-1x 256mb VMs

[[vm]]
  cpu_kind = "shared"
  cpus = 1
  memory_mb = 256

[Ephtar]

For the link you sent me: I did that before but I thought there might be another way. Thanks a lot, I followed what they wrote and it worked.

Regarding the VM → I modified to have the free allowance.

A big thanks for your help !