Thinking about migrating away from fly.io

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We are running production workloads on fly.io, but its getting increasingly unreliable. We had 1:30h of complete downtime just yesterday over a time span of 6 hours which is a LOT longer than the 35 minutes disclosed on the status page:

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Same thing happened just 14 days ago: Fly.io Status - fly-proxy outage

I undertand you are experiencing growing pains. But routing is a pretty substantial part of infrastructure. If I can’t trust the routing to be available then no other horizontal or vertical scaling, load balancing and fallback strategy will help.

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I posted in another thread about not being able to deploy this morning. I’m not quite in production yet but have investor and client demos scheduled for today. I can wing it off of localhost in a screen share, but it’s definitely frustrating.

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Same, I keep having more and more issues. In the last few days, I have had:

  1. Proxy taking down the service multiple times (Fly.io Status - Edge routing issue)
  2. Deployments not going through or updating the app
  3. Slow response times (more than 5 hours of downtime in a day)
  4. Unable to connect via ssh to container
  5. Issue with deployments (Fly.io Status - Release command issue)

I love fly.io and it’s tooling, but this is becoming hard to justify!

Edit: adding another issue to the pile

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Ugh that is frustrating. I am coming back after a few weeks just trying to see if I can get this to work. What is the next best alternative? I’ve tried Gigalixer but that seems like ages ago

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What isn’t working? Deploys?

If you’re not bought into the rest of the Fly ecosystem (proxy, autoscale, multi-process, metrics, logs, litefs, consul, redis, postgres etc), then you could run the containers you deploy on Fly on AWS Lightsail Containers / AppRunner, Railway.app, Scaleway Serverless Containers, Vultr Managed Containers, Digital Ocean App Platform / Droplets, etc; Going multi-provider may be easy or hard depending on your setup.

See also: Tell HN: Heroku alternatives with generous free tiers | Hacker News / Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go? | Hacker News / GitHub - debarshibasak/awesome-paas: A curated list of PaaS, developer platforms, Self hosted PaaS, Cloud IDEs and ADNs.

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I can understand that running a business like this can be invariable at times, but to have an incident be un-reported on their status page while also taking my services out for 24h+ is inexcusable

I’m not a paying customer because I don’t go past the loads neccesary, not because I don’t want to pay. Regardless, this is unacceptable. If there isn’t a good reason for this I don’t see any reason to continue with Fly.io

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Thanks for the tips. When I said not working I was just talking about my app. I tried to deploy one on here a few weeks ago but got some out of memory issues, so I was just referring to that. So its just kinda frustrating to have Fly have their own issues :slight_smile:

I might take a look around but I do like the approach here. Thanks again

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