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by pier25 1371 days ago
I've been using Fly for 2 years now. Overall I'm very happy and I recommend it to everyone.

If you just want to run a container in multiple regions with anycast, Fly is really the best option out there IMHO. Nothing comes close.

There are some rough edges for certain use cases but they keep polishing the service and the DX keeps getting better.

Personally the only features I'm missing today are:

- PG backups/snapshots. AFAIK these are coming in the form of virtual disk snapshots.

- Scale apps from zero to say 100 VMs like Cloud Run does. There's some autoscaling right now and the machines API, but still needs more polish. Specially for certain use cases like concurrent CPU heavy tasks (video encoding, etc). AFAIK some form of this is also coming in the next months.