I wish they provided more clarity considering they are seen as a Heroku alternative, let me explain that.
I am not saying that it fails to provide clarity to someone who is willing to pay for it, but the rule of thumb of pricing pages offering a "free" product is to explicitly mention this ⇒ "$0". Am I being picky? Yes. Why? Because it is a Heroku alternative, and Heroku did mention free in an obvious way in describing their pricing plans.
When you mention overage charges immediately after the free tier, it kinda feels a little bit weird. In the pricing plans section, they don't mention a free plan.
What’s important is that pricing isn’t the same and the free plan is really a way for you to try Fly before deciding to dial up the resources. You can use it for really small apps, but trying to squeeze a Rails app into 256Mb RAM on 3 servers is tough.
I moved few of my Heroku apps over to Fly and pay about half much for about 4x what I was getting on Heroku. When v2 of the Fly app platform goes out, I expect that price to go down even more since apps can sleep when they’re not serving up requests.
We're happy people are running workloads on us that they used to run on Heroku, but we are our own thing; we've been around for years, long before Heroku killed their free tier.
My apologies. I totally understand fly.io being a distinct company with their offering and history.
To me, fly.io is an alternative to Heroku as the title of the thread is "on: Heroku Free Alternatives". So I was comparing it to Heroku and their pricing section UX.
Totally fair! Whatever our pricing does to surprise or annoy Heroku free tier users, it's totally fair to call it out! The only thing that moved me to comment was the implication that we had somehow set out to be the second coming of Heroku. We set out to make every app in the world run close to its users globally. That we're amenable to Heroku people is just a bonus for us. :)
> The only thing that moved me to comment was the implication that we had somehow set out to be the second coming of Heroku.
Dude, I didn't mean it like that. Again, I am sorry.
My cloud experience is very limited. I have seen people talk about your SQLite related blog posts on HN, but I didn't participate in those threads, because I simply wasn't passionate enough or had an understanding about those topics.
I, too, love my job. But sometimes people with limited exposure to our product say some things about that mildly annoys me. But at the end, they don't know any better. I have unfortunately become one of those guys in this circumstance here. To me, the value proposition of a PAAS is only limited to the free pricing tier. It is a very insignificant comment about a UX thing.
I wish I could delete that comment. Please, I hope you take no further offense.
