Why is my app running on 4 machines?

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I just deployed my app for the first time with the following toml file:

[http_service]

internal_port = 8443
force_https = **true**
auto_stop_machines = **true**
auto_start_machines = **true**
min_machines_running = 1
processes = ["app"]

The app has deployed fine and my client connects fine. I have pretty much no traffic since my app is under development and I’m the only one using it. To my surprise, I see that after a few deployments tweaking my toml file, I had 4 machines running. After a few minutes it came down to 2 and now, down to 1. The Fly.io dashboard UI still says 4 (even after refreshing the page), but the Machines list clearly shows 1 running (started), 3 destroyed and 3 stopped.

Questions:

  • why did fly.io bump the machine count to 4?
  • I suppose I was being charged for a little while for these 4?
  • is there a specific setting I should be setting to limit the number to instances to 1?
  • anything else I should take into consideration?

Thanks!

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There is a setting for high availability. I think at one point it was on by default, so two apps would spin in a region by default. I think maybe not it’s a --ha flag or something.

You pay for the time machines are running. So i doubt you will notice the cost. Since it says destroyed, maybe something you did when running commands spun up new instances and turned off old ones? I am not sure without understanding things like, are they all in the same region, same size, same process group?

It is a good idea to setup HA if you can, 2 in a region, and atleast one in another region. But scaling is determine by source of traffic, and setting rate/connection setup for concurrency.

Fly does not automatically scale, past the number of machines your provision.

So if you setup 1 machine in 3 regions, and they were at capacity, fly won’t add another. You have to pre-defined the pool of machines.

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Thanks a lot Zane! :pray:t2:

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